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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Greenthreads
  8. Rayless Greenthread
  9. Supports

What Rayless Greenthread supports

17 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 bees 1 food 14 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole

Specialist bees All

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

  • Dark-faced Longhorn Bee Melissodes tristis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 17 more on greenthreads

Plant eaters All

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

  • Lesser Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus on greenthreads

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly Eristalis stipator
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Queen Danaus gilippus
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis
  • Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus
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