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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Carrots, Ivies, and Allies
  6. Carrot Family
  7. Oenantheae
  8. Cowbane

genus

Cowbane

Oxypolis

Traits
Includes
4 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Stiff Cowbane native
  • Fendler's Cowbane native
  • Western Cowbane native
  • Savanna Cowbane native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native cowbane All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Stiff Cowbane Oxypolis rigidior caterpillars 2 food 1 flowers 63
  • Fendler's Cowbane Oxypolis fendleri caterpillars 1 flowers 1
  • Western Cowbane Oxypolis occidentalis caterpillars 1
  • Savanna Cowbane Oxypolis ternata caterpillars 1

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