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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Blazing-stars
  8. Shortleaf Gayfeather
  9. Supports

What Shortleaf Gayfeather supports

63 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 58 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Wavy-lined Emerald Synchlora aerata on blazing-stars
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth Atteva aurea on blazing-stars
  • Three-lined Flower Moth Schinia trifascia on blazing-stars
  • Bleeding Flower Moth Schinia sanguinea on blazing-stars
  • Blazing Star Clearwing Carmenta anthracipennis on blazing-stars

Flower visitors All

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

  • Palmetto Skipper Euphyes arpa
  • Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • Common Buckeye Junonia coenia
  • Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus
  • Tawny-edged Skipper Polites themistocles
  • Ocola Skipper Panoquina ocola
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on blazing-stars
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