What Common Cinquefoil supports

62 native animals
supported in the US

5 caterpillars 2 bees 1 hosts 9 food 45 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

Specialist bees All

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

Cinquefoil Masked Bee Hylaeus basalis Pollen specialist on Potentilla on cinquefoils
Panurginus potentillae Pollen specialist on Potentilla and Fragaria on cinquefoils

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

Diastrophus potentillae

Plant eaters All

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

Flower visitors All

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