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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Verbena Family
  7. Vervains
  8. Purpletop Vervain
  9. Supports

What Purpletop Vervain supports

143 native animals
supported in the US
7 food 136 flowers

Plant eaters All

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

  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
  • Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
  • Foxglove Aphid Aulacorthum solani
  • American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • Huron Skipper Atalopedes huron
  • Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes
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