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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Mallows
  8. Island Mallow
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What Island Mallow supports

37 native animals
supported in the US
9 caterpillars 8 food 20 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella on mallows
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis on mallows
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis on mallows
  • Cotton Tipworm Moth Crocidosema plebejana on mallows
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on mallows
  • Northern White-Skipper Heliopetes ericetorum on mallows
  • Alfalfa Looper Autographa californica on mallows
  • Painted Tiger Moth Arachnis picta on mallows
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Island Mallow Psyllid Bactericera lavaterae
  • Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
  • White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica on mallows
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina on mallows
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on mallows
  • California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi on mallows
  • Colladonus geminatus on mallows
  • Ornate Aphid Myzus ornatus on mallows

Flower visitors All

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

  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
  • Oblique Streaktail Allograpta obliqua
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata
  • Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus
  • Sonoran Bumble Bee Bombus sonorus
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