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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Dogwoods, Hydrangeas, and Allies
  6. Stickleaf Family
  7. Blazingstars
  8. Blazingstars
  9. Veatch's Blazingstar
  10. Supports

What Veatch's Blazingstar supports

8 native animals
supported in the US
3 bees 1 hosts 4 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Bicuspidaria Blazingstar-Shortface Xeralictus bicuspidariae Pollen specialist on Mentzelia on blazingstars
  • Timberlake's Blazingstar-Shortface Xeralictus timberlakei Pollen specialist on Mentzelia on blazingstars
  • Red-tailed Blazing Star Bee Megandrena mentzeliae Pollen specialist on Mentzelia and Eucnide on blazingstars

Hosted animals All

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

  • Asphondylia mentzeliae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Master Blister Beetle Lytta magister on blazingstars
  • Encelia Megandrena Megandrena enceliae Pollen specialist on Larrea on blazingstars
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on blazingstars
  • Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens on blazingstars

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