Bloom Native gardener's
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  3. Chordates
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  5. Woodpeckers and Allies
  6. Woodpeckers
  7. Dryobates Woodpeckers
  8. Downy Woodpecker
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What supports Downy Woodpecker

96 native plants
support it in the US
83 food 13 flowers

Food plants All

83 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Eastern Poison Ivy Toxicodendron radicans
  • Black Cherry Prunus serotina keystone
  • Eastern Black Walnut Juglans nigra
  • American Pokeweed Phytolacca americana
  • Red-berried Elder Sambucus racemosa
  • Staghorn Sumac Rhus typhina
  • Sassafras Sassafras albidum
  • Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida
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Nectar plants All

13 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • River Birch Betula nigra keystone
  • Clustered Mountainmint Pycnanthemum muticum
  • American Elm Ulmus americana
  • Sugar Maple Acer saccharum
  • Common Evening-primrose Oenothera biennis
  • White Oak Quercus alba keystone
  • Quaking Aspen Populus tremuloides
  • Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos
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