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Top native Namoideae

24 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

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24 native plants

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Full sun 1

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Water use

Low 1

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Perennial 10 Shrub 8 Wildflower 4 Annual 2
  • California Yerba Santa Eriodictyon californicum caterpillars 5 hosts 3 food 9 flowers 73
  • Hairy Yerba Santa Eriodictyon trichocalyx caterpillars 1 hosts 2 flowers 68
  • Thick-leaved Yerba Santa Eriodictyon crassifolium hosts 4 food 1 flowers 53
  • Woolly Yerba Santa Eriodictyon tomentosum hosts 2 flowers 34
  • Poodle-dog Bush Eriodictyon parryi hosts 1 flowers 18
  • Narrow-leaved Yerba Santa Eriodictyon angustifolium hosts 1 flowers 14
  • Pacific Yerba Santa Eriodictyon traskiae hosts 1 flowers 14
  • Indian Knob Mountainbalm Eriodictyon altissimum hosts 1 flowers 13
  • Rough Nama Nama hispida bees 1 flowers 12
  • Purple Mat Nama demissa flowers 5
  • Woolly Nama Nama lobbii flowers 5
  • Jamaicanweed Nama jamaicensis flowers 1
  • Ground Nama Nama aretioides
  • Rothrock's Fiddleleaf Nama rothrockii
  • Gravel Mat Nama pusilla
  • Gray Mat Nama densa
  • Wishbone Fiddleleaf Nama dichotoma
  • Mud Nama Nama stenocarpa
  • Hinahina Kahakai Nama sandwicensis
  • Lompoc Yerba Santa Eriodictyon capitatum
  • California Fiddleleaf Nama californica
  • Dwarf Purple Mat Nama depressa
  • Leafy Fiddleleaf Nama parviflora
  • Betatakin Fiddleleaf Nama retrorsa

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