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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Purslane Family
  7. Purslanes
  8. Desert Portulaca
  9. Supports

What Desert Portulaca supports

10 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 hosts 1 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on purslanes
  • Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia on purslanes
  • Mexican Tiger Moth Apantesis proxima on purslanes
  • Achyra bifidalis on purslanes
  • Frosted Evergestis Evergestis funalis on purslanes

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Portulaca Leafmining Weevil Hypurus bertrandi on purslanes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on purslanes

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus on purslanes
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on purslanes
  • Southern Plains Bumble Bee Bombus fraternus on purslanes

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