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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. Spectabiles
  9. Showy Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Showy Penstemon supports

51 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 2 food 44 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

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

Plant eaters All

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

  • Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus sasin
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Pseudomasaris vespoides
  • California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
  • California Digger Bee Anthophora californica
  • Bindweed Turret Bee Diadasia bituberculata Pollen specialist on Calystegia and Convolvulus
  • Valley Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sonorina
  • Crotch's Bumble Bee Bombus crotchii
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