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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Woolly Sunflowers
  8. Common Woolly Sunflower
  9. Supports

What Common Woolly Sunflower supports

138 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 1 hosts 10 food 125 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Osmia montana Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 10 more on woolly sunflowers
  • Megachile subnigra Pollen specialist on Senecio, Cirsium, Ericameria and 7 more on woolly sunflowers

Hosted animals All

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

  • Acmaeodera hepburnii

Plant eaters All

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

  • Diamond Spottail Fazia micrura
  • Nemognatha scutellaris
  • Acmaeodera retifera
  • Acmaeodera connexa
  • Geminaria canalis
  • Krombeinopyga pumila
  • Common Aerial Yellowjacket Dolichovespula arenaria on woolly sunflowers
  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata on woolly sunflowers
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Gorgon Copper Tharsalea gorgon
  • Northern Checkerspot Chlosyne palla
  • Prickly Ceratina Ceratina acantha
  • Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee Bombus mixtus
  • Pale-fovea Miner Andrena pallidifovea
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
  • Muir's Hairstreak Callophrys muiri
  • Vancouver Bumble Bee Bombus vancouverensis
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