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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. Foxglove Beardtongue
  10. Supports

What Foxglove Beardtongue supports

73 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 bees 3 food 63 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Confused Haploa Moth Haploa confusa
  • Baltimore Checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton
  • Verbena Bud Moth Endothenia hebesana 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

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

  • Four-lined Plant Bug Poecilocapsus lineatus
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Orange-tipped Wood-digger Anthophora terminalis
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Bufflehead Mason Bee Osmia bucephala
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