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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Checkerblooms
  8. Oregon Checker-mallow
  9. Supports

What Oregon Checker-mallow supports

40 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 2 bees 33 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Zenodoxus sidalceae
  • Two-banded Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus ruralis on checkerblooms
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on checkerblooms

Specialist bees All

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

  • Globe Mallow Bee Diadasia diminuta Pollen specialist on Sphaeralcea and Sidalcea on checkerblooms
  • Black-fronted Turret Bee Diadasia nigrifrons Pollen specialist on Sidalcea on checkerblooms

Flower visitors All

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

  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee Bombus mixtus
  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Vancouver Bumble Bee Bombus vancouverensis
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