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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Tarweeds
  8. Lemon-Scented Tarweed
  9. Supports

What Lemon-Scented Tarweed supports

9 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 bees 1 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Darker-spotted Straw Moth Heliothis phloxiphaga on tarweeds
  • Small Heliothodes Moth Heliothodes diminutiva on tarweeds

Specialist bees All

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

  • Horn-faced Leafcutter Bee Megachile fidelis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 20 more on tarweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on tarweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Titus's Sweat Bee Lasioglossum titusi on tarweeds
  • Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta on tarweeds
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on tarweeds
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides on tarweeds
  • Pomona Longhorn Xenoglossa pomonae on tarweeds

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