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  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
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  7. Milkvetches
  8. Braunton's Milkvetch
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What Braunton's Milkvetch supports

28 native animals
supported in the US
14 caterpillars 3 food 11 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Queen Alexandra’s Sulphur Colias alexandra
  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina on milkvetches
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on milkvetches
  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus on milkvetches
  • Harford's Sulphur Colias harfordii on milkvetches
  • Arrowhead Blue Glaucopsyche piasus on milkvetches
  • Afranius Duskywing Erynnis afranius on milkvetches
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on milkvetches
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena on milkvetches
  • Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae on milkvetches
  • School Shark Galeorhinus galeus on milkvetches

Flower visitors All

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

  • Rocky Mountain Clearwing Hemaris thetis on milkvetches
  • Crotch's Bumble Bee Bombus crotchii on milkvetches
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on milkvetches
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on milkvetches
  • Monk Longhorn Eucera frater on milkvetches
  • California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus on milkvetches
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides on milkvetches
  • Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara on milkvetches
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