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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nances, Willows, and Allies
  6. Violets and Allies
  7. Violets
  8. Chrysanthae
  9. Shelton's Violet
  10. Supports

What Shelton's Violet supports

27 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 hosts 2 food 19 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Hydaspe Fritillary Argynnis hydaspe
  • Waterlily Leafcutter Moth Elophila obliteralis on violets
  • Mormon Fritillary Argynnis mormonia on violets
  • Callippe Fritillary Argynnis callippe on violets
  • Pacific Fritillary Boloria epithore on violets

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Violet Leafmining Sawfly Nefusa ambigua on violets

Plant eaters All

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

  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on violets
  • Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus on violets

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on violets
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on violets
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus on violets
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on violets
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus on violets
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii on violets
  • Narrow-headed Marsh Fly Helophilus fasciatus on violets
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane on violets
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