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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Rubberweeds
  8. Bitter Hymenoxys
  9. Supports

What Bitter Hymenoxys supports

22 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 1 food 19 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Dark-faced Longhorn Bee Melissodes tristis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 17 more on rubberweeds
  • Melissodes confusus Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Bidens, Senecio and 14 more on rubberweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Lesser Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus on rubberweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Mesilla Masked Bee Hylaeus mesillae
  • Short Sun-digger Bee Anthophora curta Pollen specialist on Ericameria, Deinandra, Solidago and 17 more
  • Angeles Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon angelicus
  • Common Little Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile brevis
  • Compact Cellophane-Cuckoo Epeolus compactus
  • Megachile sidalceae
  • Lovely-horned Fairy Bee Perdita callicerata Pollen specialist on Heterotheca, Gutierrezia, Malacothrix and 3 more
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