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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Bristlegrasses
  8. Plains Bristlegrass
  9. Supports

What Plains Bristlegrass supports

30 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 26 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor on bristlegrasses
  • Stalk Borer Moth Papaipema nebris on bristlegrasses

Plant eaters All

26 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Pallid-winged Grasshopper Trimerotropis pallidipennis
  • Kiowa Grasshopper Trachyrhachys kiowa
  • Ebony Grasshopper Boopedon nubilum
  • House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
  • Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on bristlegrasses
  • Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina on bristlegrasses
  • Sora Porzana carolina on bristlegrasses
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Mozena obtusa
  • Bold Jumping Spider Phidippus audax on bristlegrasses

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