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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Wild Indigos
  8. Eastern Wild Indigo
  9. Supports

What Eastern Wild Indigo supports

67 native animals
supported in the US
13 caterpillars 1 food 53 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Wild Indigo Duskywing Erynnis baptisiae
  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice
  • Frosted Elfin Callophrys irus
  • Dogbane Stem Borer Moth Papaipema baptisiae
  • Polyphemus Moth Antheraea polyphemus
  • Io Moth Automeris io
  • Genista Broom Moth Uresiphita reversalis
  • Chain-dotted Geometer Cingilia catenaria
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Northern Rotund-Resin Bee Anthidiellum notatum
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Edwards' Hairstreak Satyrium edwardsii
  • Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris
  • Northern Broken-Dash Polites egeremet
  • Bellflower Resin Bee Megachile campanulae Pollen specialist on Campanula and Campanulastrum
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