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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Borages
  6. Borage Family
  7. Scorpionweeds
  8. Humiles
  9. Brand's Star Phacelia
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What Brand's Star Phacelia supports

62 native animals
supported in the US
7 bees 1 food 54 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Phacelia Shortface Dufourea mulleri Pollen specialist on Phacelia and Nemophila on scorpionweeds
  • Chelostoma californicum Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds
  • Baker's Phacelia-Shortface Conanthalictus bakeri Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds
  • Anthidium palmarum Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds
  • Bearded Nomadopsis Calliopsis barbata Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds
  • Anthidium mormonum Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds
  • Chelostoma phaceliae Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis on scorpionweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell Aglais milberti
  • California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Western Leafcutter Bee Megachile perihirta
  • Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana
  • Punctate Blister Beetle Epicauta puncticollis
  • Spotted Bee Fly Anthrax irroratus
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