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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Salsifies
  8. Tragopogon
  9. Meadow Salsify
  10. Supports

What Meadow Salsify supports

30 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 13 food 16 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Allen's Tortrix Moth Aphelia alleniana

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Goatsbeard Aphid Brachycaudus tragopogonis
  • Alfalfa Snout Beetle Otiorhynchus ligustici
  • Amara quenseli
  • Dirt-colored Seed Bug Sphragisticus nebulosus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon virescens
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
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