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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Brittlebushes
  8. Nodding Sunray
  9. Supports

What Nodding Sunray supports

9 native animals
supported in the US
6 bees 1 food 2 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Horn-faced Leafcutter Bee Megachile fidelis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 20 more on brittlebushes
  • Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile inimica Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium and 10 more on brittlebushes
  • Colorado Mason Osmia coloradensis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 3 more on brittlebushes
  • Osmia montana Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 10 more on brittlebushes
  • Dark-faced Longhorn Bee Melissodes tristis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 17 more on brittlebushes
  • Big-cheeked Angled-Mason Ashmeadiella bucconis Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Helianthus and 23 more on brittlebushes

Plant eaters All

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

  • House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus on brittlebushes

Flower visitors All

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

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus on brittlebushes
  • California Digger-cuckoo Bee Brachymelecta californica on brittlebushes

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