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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Pink Family
  7. Chickweeds
  8. Boreal Starwort
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What Boreal Starwort supports

28 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 6 food 17 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Chickweed Geometer Moth Haematopis grataria on chickweeds
  • Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Xanthorhoe ferrugata on chickweeds
  • Venerable Dart Agrotis venerabilis on chickweeds
  • Simple Wave Scopula junctaria on chickweeds
  • Gnorimoschema coquillettella on chickweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Atlantic Cod Gadus morhua on chickweeds
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea on chickweeds
  • American Robin Turdus migratorius on chickweeds
  • Common Grass Skimmer Paragus haemorrhous on chickweeds
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi on chickweeds
  • Pale Tortoise Beetle Cassida flaveola on chickweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on chickweeds
  • Common Ringlet Coenonympha california on chickweeds
  • Margined White Pieris marginalis on chickweeds
  • White Annaphila Annaphila diva on chickweeds
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus on chickweeds
  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus on chickweeds
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on chickweeds
  • Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon virescens on chickweeds
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