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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Sweetvetches
  8. Boreal Sweet-vetch
  9. Supports

What Boreal Sweet-vetch supports

39 native animals
supported in the US
9 caterpillars 2 bees 28 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice
  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus
  • Queen Alexandra’s Sulphur Colias alexandra
  • Hecla Sulphur Colias hecla
  • Coleophora accordella
  • Platynota nigrocervina
  • Christina Sulphur Colias christina on sweetvetches
  • American Idia Moth Idia americalis on sweetvetches
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Specialist bees All

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

  • Black-and-gray Leafcutter Bee Megachile melanophaea Pollen specialist on Astragalus, Lupinus and Hedysarum on sweetvetches
  • Osmia longula Pollen specialist on Astragalus, Lupinus and Hedysarum on sweetvetches

Flower visitors All

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

  • Nevada Bumble Bee Bombus nevadensis
  • Mimic Small-Mason Hoplitis hypocrita
  • Truncate Small-Mason Hoplitis truncata
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Wide-footed Treehopper Enchenopa latipes
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Goldenrod Crab Spider Misumena vatia
  • Tricolored Bumble Bee Bombus ternarius
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