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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Buttercups, Poppies, and Allies
  6. Buttercup Family
  7. Buttercups
  8. Mountain Buttercup
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What Mountain Buttercup supports

46 native animals
supported in the US
1 bees 13 food 32 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Caerulean Miner Bee Andrena caerulea Pollen specialist on Ranunculus on buttercups

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on buttercups
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis on buttercups
  • American Wigeon Mareca americana on buttercups
  • American Winter Ant Prenolepis imparis on buttercups
  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on buttercups
  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus on buttercups
  • Western Forest Sedgesitter Platycheirus trichopus on buttercups
  • Brachysomida californica on buttercups
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown Elfin Callophrys augustinus
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on buttercups
  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis on buttercups
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum on buttercups
  • Common Ringlet Coenonympha california on buttercups
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus on buttercups
  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus on buttercups
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus on buttercups
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