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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. Sulphur Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Sulphur Penstemon supports

53 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 bees 2 food 44 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia on beardtongues
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona on beardtongues
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues
  • Kallia murtfeldtella on beardtongues
  • Penstemon Borer Penstemonia edwardsii on beardtongues

Specialist bees All

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

  • Osmia pentstemonis 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

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

  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • White-shouldered Bumble Bee Bombus appositus
  • Van Dyke's Bumble Bee Bombus vandykei
  • Orange-tipped Wood-digger Anthophora terminalis on beardtongues
  • Pseudomasaris vespoides on beardtongues
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