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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Beardtongues
  8. Penstemon
  9. Pale Beardtongue
  10. Supports

What Pale Beardtongue supports

40 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 bees 2 food 32 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Verbena Bud Moth Endothenia hebesana on beardtongues
  • Baltimore Checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton on beardtongues
  • Chalcedony Midget Elaphria chalcedonia on beardtongues
  • Sri Lanka Plume Moth Stenoptilodes taprobanes on beardtongues
  • Kallia murtfeldtella on beardtongues

Specialist bees All

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

  • Beardtongue Scraper Bee Osmia distincta Pollen specialist on Penstemon on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Abrupt Digger Bee Anthophora abrupta
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus
  • Orange-tipped Wood-digger Anthophora terminalis on beardtongues
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus on beardtongues
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on beardtongues
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