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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies
  6. Coffees, Bedstraws, and Allies
  7. Bedstraws
  8. Platygalium
  9. Starry Bedstraw
  10. Supports

What Starry Bedstraw supports

17 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 4 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Gem Moth Orthonama obstipata on bedstraws
  • Common Tan Wave Pleuroprucha insulsaria on bedstraws
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on bedstraws
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum on bedstraws
  • Bent-lined Carpet Costaconvexa centrostrigaria on bedstraws
  • Drab Brown Wave Lobocleta ossularia on bedstraws
  • Orange-winged Carpet Epirrhoe plebeculata on bedstraws
  • Red Carpet Xanthorhoe decoloraria on bedstraws

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on bedstraws
  • American Coot Fulica americana on bedstraws
  • Hairy Plant Bug Orthocephalus coriaceus on bedstraws
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae on bedstraws

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Ringlet Coenonympha california on bedstraws
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on bedstraws
  • Common Wood-Nymph Cercyonis pegala on bedstraws
  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus on bedstraws
  • Common Thick-leg Fly Tropidia quadrata on bedstraws

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