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Scientific name: Anthophyta: : : Valerianaceae: Valeriana pauciflora
Common Name: Few-flowered Valerian

Country: USA
State/District: VA
County:
Date (D-M-Y): 13 - 5 - 2007

Photographer: E. M. Barrows

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector:
Location: Virginia
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Keywords: A pink flower butterfly
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Figure 1.   An inflorescence of Valeriana pauciflora with gray aphids tended by Campanotus ants.

Figure 2.   An inflorescence of Valeriana pauciflora.

Figure 3.   An inflorescence with gray aphids tended by Prenolepis imparis ants.

Figure 4.   An old Eurytides marcellus that visited flowers of Valeriana pauciflora.

Figure 5.   The old Eurytides marcellus visiting flowers of Valeriana pauciflora.



Figure 6.   The old Eurytides marcellus visiting flowers of Valeriana pauciflora.

Figure 7.   The old Eurytides marcellus visiting flowers of Valeriana pauciflora.

Figure 8.   An Erynnis horatius that landed on flowers of Valeriana pauciflora but did not probe them with her proboscis.




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