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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Wormwoods and Sagebrushes
  8. Tridentatae
  9. Silver Chickensage
  10. Supports

What Silver Chickensage supports

14 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 4 hosts 5 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on wormwoods and sagebrushes
  • Nutmeg Moth Anarta trifolii on wormwoods and sagebrushes
  • Sagebrush Sheep Moth Hemileuca hera on wormwoods and sagebrushes
  • Polia nugatis on wormwoods and sagebrushes
  • Cochylis on wormwoods and sagebrushes

Hosted animals All

4 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Sagebrush Medusa Gall Midge Rhopalomyia medusa on wormwoods and sagebrushes
  • Eutreta diana on wormwoods and sagebrushes
  • Sponge Gall Midge Rhopalomyia pomum on Tridentatae
  • Woolly Bud Gall Midge Rhopalomyia medusirrasa on wormwoods and sagebrushes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus on wormwoods and sagebrushes
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea on wormwoods and sagebrushes
  • Plum-thistle Aphid Brachycaudus cardui on wormwoods and sagebrushes
  • Okanagana magnifica on wormwoods and sagebrushes
  • Okanagana luteobasalis on wormwoods and sagebrushes

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