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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Beardtongues
  8. Spectabiles
  9. Palmer's Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Palmer's Penstemon supports

70 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 3 food 61 flowers

Caterpillars All

6 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia on beardtongues
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona on beardtongues
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues
  • Kallia murtfeldtella on beardtongues
  • Penstemon Borer Penstemonia edwardsii on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

3 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • White-eared Hummingbird Basilinna leucotis on beardtongues
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

61 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana
  • Tiny Small Carpenter Ceratina nanula
  • Morrison's Bumble Bee Bombus morrisoni
  • Pacific Coast Small Carpenter Ceratina pacifica
  • Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae
  • Nevada Bumble Bee Bombus nevadensis
  • Horse-fly Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tabaniformis
  • Crotch's Bumble Bee Bombus crotchii
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