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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. Glabri
  9. Royal Beardtongue
  10. Supports

What Royal Beardtongue 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
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona 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.

  • Pseudomasaris vespoides
  • 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.

  • Osmia brevis
  • Van Dyke's Bumble Bee Bombus vandykei
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • White-shouldered Bumble Bee Bombus appositus
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Incomplete Sweat Bee Lasioglossum incompletum
  • Atoposmia abjecta
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