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

What Loomis' Thimblehead supports

9 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 2 food 5 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on thimblehead
  • Sabine Longhorn Bee Epimelissodes sabinensis Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Baccharis, Heterotheca and 8 more on thimblehead

Plant eaters All

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

  • Purple Bromeliad Fly Copestylum violaceum
  • Chauliognathus omissus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia
  • Sonoran Bumble Bee Bombus sonorus
  • California Patch Chlosyne californica
  • Melissodes verbesinarum Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Heterotheca, Helianthus and 14 more on thimblehead

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