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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. Penstemon
  9. Rydberg's Beardtongue
  10. Supports

What Rydberg's Beardtongue supports

66 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 bees 3 food 56 flowers

Caterpillars All

6 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
  • Penstemon Borer Penstemonia edwardsii 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-eared Hummingbird Basilinna leucotis on beardtongues
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Nevada Bumble Bee Bombus nevadensis
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
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