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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Beardtongues
  8. Erianthera
  9. Davidson's Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Davidson's Penstemon supports

60 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 bees 3 food 51 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia on beardtongues
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona on beardtongues
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues
  • Kallia murtfeldtella on beardtongues

Specialist bees All

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

  • Osmia pentstemonis Pollen specialist on Penstemon on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

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

  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Vancouver Bumble Bee Bombus vancouverensis
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus
  • Osmia tristella
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