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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Mallows
  8. Dwarf Mallow
  9. Supports

What Dwarf Mallow supports

37 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 2 hosts 12 food 17 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Cotton Tipworm Moth Crocidosema plebejana
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata

Hosted animals All

2 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Aspidapion radiolus
  • Mallow Leaf Miner Calycomyza malvae

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
  • Dusky-banded Leafwalker Chalcosyrphus nemorum
  • Ornate Aphid Myzus ornatus
  • Shuckard's Wasp Pemphredon inornata
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Spurred Ceratina Ceratina calcarata
  • Prickly Ceratina Ceratina acantha
  • Aster Cellophane Bee Colletes compactus Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Bidens and 3 more
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice
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