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 "common_name": "Swamp Milkweed",
 "family": "Apocynaceae",
 "genus": "Asclepias",
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 "region": "North Carolina",
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 "wetland_indicator": "OBL",
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 "ph_range": [
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  {
   "name": "Vascular Plants of North Carolina, plant list export 2026-09-01 (LeGrand, Sorrie & Howard)",
   "url": "https://auth1.dpr.ncparks.gov/flora/"
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   "name": "Robertson 1929, Illinois flower visitors; GloBI contributor transcription (visits, not confirmed pollination)",
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  {
   "name": "Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1261.160796"
  },
  {
   "name": "Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18303036"
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   "name": "Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14226492"
  },
  {
   "name": "Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)",
   "url": "https://github.com/hurlbertlab/dietdatabase"
  },
  {
   "name": "USDA NRCS PLANTS Database, growth habit (public domain)",
   "url": "https://plants.usda.gov/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19565-4"
  },
  {
   "name": "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Wetland Plant List 2022, Eastern Mountains & Piedmont",
   "url": "https://wetland-plants.sec.usace.army.mil/"
  },
  {
   "name": "USDA NRCS PLANTS Database",
   "url": "https://plants.usda.gov/"
  }
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     {
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     },
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     },
     {
      "animal": "Ammobia nuda",
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     },
     {
      "animal": "Ammobia pennsylvanica",
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      "animal": "Tachytes mandibularis",
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     },
     {
      "animal": "Ageniella accepta",
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     },
     {
      "animal": "Isodontia macrocephala",
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     {
      "animal": "Tachytes distinctus",
      "group": "other_hymenoptera",
      "source_plant": "Asclepias incarnata",
      "interaction": "flower_visit",
      "location": "Carlinville, Illinois, USA",
      "dataset": "Robertson 1929 / GloBI mirror",
      "reference": "Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson.",
      "pollination_confirmed": false
     },
     {
      "animal": "Tachytes pepticus",
      "group": "other_hymenoptera",
      "source_plant": "Asclepias incarnata",
      "interaction": "flower_visit",
      "location": "Carlinville, Illinois, USA",
      "dataset": "Robertson 1929 / GloBI mirror",
      "reference": "Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson.",
      "pollination_confirmed": false
     },
     {
      "animal": "Vespula vidua",
      "group": "other_hymenoptera",
      "source_plant": "Asclepias incarnata",
      "interaction": "flower_visit",
      "location": "Carlinville, Illinois, USA",
      "dataset": "Robertson 1929 / GloBI mirror",
      "reference": "Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson.",
      "pollination_confirmed": false
     }
    ],
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    "credit": 1
   },
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    "label": "Other insects",
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    ],
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     {
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      "group": "other_insects",
      "source_plant": "Asclepias incarnata",
      "interaction": "flower_visit",
      "location": "Carlinville, Illinois, USA",
      "dataset": "Robertson 1929 / GloBI mirror",
      "reference": "Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson.",
      "pollination_confirmed": false
     }
    ],
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    "credit": 0
   }
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  "interpretation": "One provisional point per additional documented insect group, capped at five. Flower visits are a resource-use proxy, not confirmed feeding or pollination. Missing evidence is unknown. Study volume and repeated records earn no extra credit."
 },
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   "percentile": 0.821
  },
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   "percentile": 0.986
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   "percentile": 0.664
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   ],
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  }
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  "full sun"
 ],
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  "Alexander",
  "Alleghany",
  "Anson",
  "Ashe",
  "Avery",
  "Beaufort",
  "Buncombe",
  "Burke",
  "Cabarrus",
  "Caldwell",
  "Caswell",
  "Catawba",
  "Chatham",
  "Cherokee",
  "Clay",
  "Cleveland",
  "Currituck",
  "Dare",
  "Davie",
  "Durham",
  "Forsyth",
  "Gaston",
  "Gates",
  "Graham",
  "Granville",
  "Guilford",
  "Halifax",
  "Haywood",
  "Henderson",
  "Hyde",
  "Iredell",
  "Lee",
  "Lincoln",
  "Macon",
  "Madison",
  "Mecklenburg",
  "Mitchell",
  "Orange",
  "Pasquotank",
  "Perquimans",
  "Person",
  "Randolph",
  "Richmond",
  "Rockingham",
  "Rowan",
  "Stanly",
  "Stokes",
  "Swain",
  "Transylvania",
  "Tyrrell",
  "Union",
  "Vance",
  "Wake",
  "Warren",
  "Washington",
  "Watauga",
  "Wilkes",
  "Yadkin",
  "Yancey"
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   4
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   4
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   8.0
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 },
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 "fit_note": "Yard fit has not been assessed. County occurrences and condition proxies are not proof of local nativity or suitability.",
 "fit_provenance": {
  "counties": "USDA PLANTS: recorded in 60 NC counties",
  "ph": "USDA PLANTS",
  "light": "USDA PLANTS shade class 'High', read inverted (coarse)",
  "moisture": "USACE wetland occurrence proxy; ; tolerates saturated soil (USDA/Niinemets)"
 },
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  "bees": "records_present",
  "specialists": "no_records_or_unknown",
  "birds": "records_present",
  "structure": "records_present"
 },
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  "Coastal Plain",
  "Mountains",
  "Piedmont"
 ],
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  "bees": 176,
  "specialists": 45,
  "birds": 58,
  "insect_ants": 20,
  "insect_beetles": 12,
  "insect_flies": 74,
  "insect_moths_butterflies": 15,
  "insect_other_hymenoptera": 75,
  "insect_other_insects": 5
 },
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}