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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Milkvetches
  8. Preussiani
  9. Salton Milkvetch
  10. Supports

What Salton Milkvetch supports

25 native animals
supported in the US
14 caterpillars 1 bees 10 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme
  • Queen Alexandra’s Sulphur Colias alexandra
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus
  • Alfalfa Looper Autographa californica
  • Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni
  • Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescens
  • Clear Dart Euxoa declarata
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Specialist bees All

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

  • Pallid Habropoda Habropoda pallida Pollen specialist on Astragalus, Psorothamnus, Parkinsonia and 1 more on milkvetches

Flower visitors All

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

  • Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens
  • 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
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