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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. Penstemon
  9. Hot Rock Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Hot Rock Penstemon supports

61 native animals
supported in the US
7 caterpillars 1 bees 2 food 51 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona
  • Pyramidobela quinquecristata
  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia 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

Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Osmia pentstemonis Pollen specialist on Penstemon on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Nevada Bumble Bee Bombus nevadensis
  • Osmia brevis
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
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