Top native Cardamineae
55 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Pennsylvania Bittercress
Cardamine pensylvanica
caterpillars
6
bees
1
food
1
flowers
21
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Bog Yellowcress
Rorippa palustris
caterpillars
6
food
11
flowers
19
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Cuckooflower
Cardamine pratensis
caterpillars
5
bees
1
food
10
flowers
38
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Sand Bittercress
Cardamine parviflora
caterpillars
5
bees
1
food
1
flowers
22
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American Yellowrocket
Barbarea orthoceras
caterpillars
5
food
4
flowers
72
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Curvepod Yellowcress
Rorippa curvisiliqua
caterpillars
5
flowers
1
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Rocky Mountain Yellowcress
Rorippa curvipes
caterpillars
5
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Two-leaved Toothwort
Cardamine diphylla
caterpillars
4
bees
1
food
3
flowers
23
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Cut-leaved Toothwort
Cardamine concatenata
caterpillars
4
bees
1
food
2
flowers
75
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Bulbous Cress
Cardamine bulbosa
caterpillars
4
bees
1
food
1
flowers
59
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Slender Toothwort
Cardamine angustata
caterpillars
4
bees
1
food
1
flowers
33
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Purple Cress
Cardamine douglassii
caterpillars
4
bees
1
food
1
flowers
21
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Large Toothwort
Cardamine maxima
caterpillars
4
bees
1
food
1
flowers
18
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American Bittercress
Cardamine rotundifolia
caterpillars
4
bees
1
food
1
flowers
17
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Forkleaf Toothwort
Cardamine dissecta
caterpillars
4
food
1
flowers
15
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Spreading Yellowcress
Rorippa sinuata
caterpillars
4
food
1
flowers
9
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Stalkless Yellowcress
Rorippa sessiliflora
caterpillars
4
food
1
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Hispid Yellowcress
Rorippa hispida
caterpillars
4
food
1
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Southern Marsh Yellowcress
Rorippa teres
caterpillars
4
flowers
22
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Heartleaf Bittercress
Cardamine cordifolia
caterpillars
4
flowers
13
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Brewer's Bittercress
Cardamine breweri
caterpillars
4
flowers
11
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Columbia Yellow Cress
Rorippa columbiae
caterpillars
4
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Slender Yellow-cress
Rorippa tenerrima
caterpillars
4
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Milkmaids
Cardamine californica
caterpillars
3
food
6
flowers
24
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Alpine Bittercress
Cardamine bellidifolia
caterpillars
3
food
5
flowers
10
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Blue Ridge Bittercress
Cardamine flagellifera
caterpillars
3
flowers
14
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Mountain Bittercress
Cardamine clematitis
caterpillars
3
flowers
13
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Nuttall's Toothwort
Cardamine nuttallii
caterpillars
3
flowers
11
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Seaside Bittercress
Cardamine angulata
caterpillars
3
flowers
8
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Little Western Bittercress
Cardamine oligosperma
caterpillars
3
flowers
8
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Willamette Valley Bittercress
Cardamine penduliflora
caterpillars
3
flowers
7
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Tahoe Yellow Cress
Rorippa subumbellata
caterpillars
3
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Saddle Mountain Bittercress
Cardamine pattersonii
caterpillars
2
flowers
6
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Constance's Bittercress
Cardamine constancei
caterpillars
2
flowers
6
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Western Bittercress
Cardamine occidentalis
caterpillars
2
flowers
6
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Serpentine Bittercress
Cardamine pachystigma
caterpillars
2
flowers
5
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Roundfruit Yellowcress
Rorippa sphaerocarpa
caterpillars
2
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Long's Bittercress
Cardamine longii
caterpillars
1
flowers
15
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Siberian Bittercress
Cardamine umbellata
caterpillars
1
flowers
2
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Florida Yellowcress
Nasturtium floridanum
caterpillars
1
flowers
2
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Golden Selenia
Selenia aurea
caterpillars
1
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Alpine Yellowcress
Rorippa alpina
caterpillars
1
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Northern Yellow-cress
Rorippa islandica
food
7
flowers
2
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Virginia Cress
Planodes virginicum
flowers
28
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Fleshy-fruit Gladecress
Leavenworthia crassa
flowers
7
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Cedar Gladecress
Leavenworthia stylosa
flowers
1
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Michaux's Gladecress
Leavenworthia uniflora
flowers
1
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Purple Rocket
Iodanthus pinnatifidus
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Lake-cress
Rorippa aquatica
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Alabama Gladecress
Leavenworthia alabamica