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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Coneflowers
  8. Yellow Coneflower
  9. Supports

What Yellow Coneflower supports

93 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 4 bees 88 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • American Sunflower Moth Homoeosoma electella on coneflowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on coneflowers
  • Protandrena albitarsis Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Coreopsis, Rudbeckia and 3 more on coneflowers
  • Andrena helianthiformis Pollen specialist on Echinacea on coneflowers
  • Big-cheeked Angled-Mason Ashmeadiella bucconis Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Helianthus and 23 more on coneflowers

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Great Spangled Fritillary Argynnis cybele
  • Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon virescens
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos
  • Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
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