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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies
  6. Balsam Family
  7. Touch-me-nots
  8. Kashmir Balsam
  9. Supports

What Kashmir Balsam supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 7 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Ornate Hydriris Moth Hydriris ornatalis

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
  • Jewelweed Leaf-miner Fly Phytoliriomyza melampyga

Flower visitors All

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

  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Half-black Bumble Bee Bombus vagans

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