Native grasses and sedges

1,213 grasses and sedges, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

Hoary Sedge Carex canescens keystone caterpillars 43 food 64 flowers 3
Northwest Territory Sedge Carex utriculata keystone caterpillars 43 food 59 flowers 3
Water Sedge Carex aquatilis keystone caterpillars 43 food 58 flowers 3
Bristle-stalked Sedge Carex leptalea keystone caterpillars 42 food 58 flowers 3
Two-seeded Sedge Carex disperma keystone caterpillars 42 food 58 flowers 3
Inflated Sedge Carex vesicaria keystone caterpillars 41 food 63 flowers 3
Tall Bog-sedge Carex magellanica keystone caterpillars 41 food 58 flowers 3
Star Sedge Carex echinata keystone caterpillars 40 food 62 flowers 3
Buxbaum's Sedge Carex buxbaumii keystone caterpillars 40 food 60 flowers 3
Livid Sedge Carex livida keystone caterpillars 40 food 54 flowers 3
Woolly-fruited Sedge Carex lasiocarpa keystone caterpillars 39 food 63 flowers 3 shelter 1
Few-flowered Sedge Carex pauciflora keystone caterpillars 39 food 63 flowers 3
Awl-fruited Sedge Carex stipata keystone caterpillars 39 food 56 flowers 3
Field Sedge Carex praegracilis keystone caterpillars 39 food 55 flowers 5
Pointed Broom Sedge Carex scoparia keystone caterpillars 39 food 55 flowers 3
Woolly Sedge Carex pellita keystone caterpillars 39 food 55 flowers 3
Inland Sedge Carex interior keystone caterpillars 39 food 55 flowers 3
Brownish Sedge Carex brunnescens keystone caterpillars 38 food 63 flowers 3
Mud Sedge Carex limosa keystone caterpillars 38 food 60 flowers 3
Fox Sedge Carex vulpinoidea keystone caterpillars 38 food 59 flowers 5
Golden Sedge Carex aurea keystone caterpillars 38 food 55 flowers 3
Lesser Tussock Sedge Carex diandra keystone caterpillars 38 food 55 flowers 3
Dry Land Sedge Carex siccata keystone caterpillars 37 food 55 flowers 3 shelter 1
Bottlebrush Sedge Carex hystericina keystone caterpillars 37 food 55 flowers 3
Elk Sedge Carex garberi keystone caterpillars 37 food 55 flowers 3
Long-stolon Sedge Carex inops keystone caterpillars 37 food 49 flowers 3
Bristly Sedge Carex comosa keystone caterpillars 36 food 55 flowers 3
Bebb's Sedge Carex bebbii keystone caterpillars 36 food 55 flowers 3
Shortbeak Sedge Carex brevior keystone caterpillars 36 food 55 flowers 3
Dewey's Sedge Carex deweyana keystone caterpillars 36 food 54 flowers 3
Bulrush Sedge Carex scirpoidea keystone caterpillars 36 food 54 flowers 3
Yellow-green Sedge Carex flava keystone caterpillars 35 food 63 flowers 3
Pale Sedge Carex pallescens keystone caterpillars 35 food 61 flowers 3
Cyperus Sedge Carex pseudocyperus keystone caterpillars 35 food 59 flowers 3
Longbeak Sedge Carex sprengelii keystone caterpillars 35 food 55 flowers 3
Gray's Sedge Carex grayi keystone caterpillars 34 food 57 flowers 4
Hair-like Sedge Carex capillaris keystone caterpillars 34 food 57 flowers 3
Sallow Sedge Carex lurida keystone caterpillars 34 food 55 flowers 3
Blunt Broom Sedge Carex tribuloides keystone caterpillars 34 food 54 flowers 3
Retrorse Sedge Carex retrorsa keystone caterpillars 34 food 54 flowers 3
Emory's Sedge Carex emoryi keystone caterpillars 34 food 52 flowers 3
Sparse-flowered Sedge Carex tenuiflora keystone caterpillars 34 food 50 flowers 3
Swamp Meadow-grass Poa palustris keystone caterpillars 34 food 19 flowers 1
Smooth Black Sedge Carex nigra keystone caterpillars 33 food 59 flowers 3
Pennsylvania Sedge Carex pensylvanica keystone caterpillars 33 food 55 flowers 5
Fringed Sedge Carex crinita keystone caterpillars 33 food 55 flowers 3
Fibrous-rooted Sedge Carex communis keystone caterpillars 33 food 55 flowers 3
Bladder Sedge Carex intumescens keystone caterpillars 33 food 54 flowers 3
Hop Sedge Carex lupulina keystone caterpillars 33 food 54 flowers 3
Tussock Sedge Carex stricta keystone caterpillars 33 food 54 flowers 3