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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nances, Willows, and Allies
  6. Coco Plum Family
  7. Geobalanus
  8. Gopher Apple
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What Gopher Apple supports

29 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 6 food 22 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Viceroy Limenitis archippus

Plant eaters All

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

  • Gopher Tortoise Gopherus polyphemus
  • Four-toothed Mason Wasp Monobia quadridens
  • Clubbed Mydas Fly Mydas clavatus
  • Horse Guard Wasp Stictia carolina
  • Hispid Cotton Rat Sigmodon hispidus
  • Ponana scarlatina

Flower visitors All

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

  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Myzinum dubiosum
  • Common Lovebug Plecia nearctica
  • Scaly Bee Fly Lepidophora lepidocera
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
  • Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus
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