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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Mint Family
  7. Sages
  8. Salvia Sect. Audibertia
  9. Brandegee's Sage
  10. Supports

What Brandegee's Sage supports

92 native animals
supported in the US
1 bees 2 hosts 8 food 81 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Sage Angled-Mason Ashmeadiella salviae Pollen specialist on Salvia, Trichostema and Lepechinia on sages

Hosted animals All

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

  • White Sage Leaf Gall Midge Rhopalomyia audibertiae on sages
  • Rhopalomyia salviae on sages

Plant eaters All

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

  • Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris on sages
  • Western Aphideater Eupeodes fumipennis on sages
  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis on sages
  • Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata on sages
  • Bushtit Psaltriparus minimus on sages
  • Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus on sages
  • Western Yellowjacket Vespula pensylvanica on sages
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum on sages

Flower visitors All

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

  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Sonoran Bumble Bee Bombus sonorus
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major
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