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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Sow Thistles
  8. Perennial Sow Thistle
  9. Supports

What Perennial Sow Thistle supports

107 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 13 food 92 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Civil Rustic Moth Caradrina montana
  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana

Plant eaters All

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

  • Sow-thistle Aphid Uroleucon sonchi
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus
  • Poplar Gall Aphid Pemphigus bursarius
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Dark-veined Longhorn Bee Melissodes trinodis Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Helianthus and 6 more
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
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