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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. American Asters
  8. Largeflower Asters
  9. May Prairie Aster

species 31 observations

May Prairie Aster

Symphyotrichum estesii

Status
native
Bees
7 specialists raised on its pollen
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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205 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Pearl Crescent, Isabella Tiger Moth, Peppered Moth, American Lady 43
  • Specialist bees Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it Dark-veined Longhorn Bee, Drury's Long-horned Bee, Cloudy-winged Mining Bee, Aster Mining Bee 7
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Ophiomyia quinta 1
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp, Keeled Treehopper, Eastern Meadow Vole, Scudder's Short-winged Grasshopper 8
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Monarch, Transverse-banded Flower Fly, Narrow-headed Marsh Fly 146

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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