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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Complex Festuca Ovina
  9. Sheep's Fescue
  10. Supports

What Sheep's Fescue supports

28 native animals
supported in the US
9 caterpillars 19 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma
  • Pearl Veneer Agriphila straminella
  • White-veined Arctic Oeneis bore
  • Nevada Skipper Hesperia nevada
  • Yellow Satin Veneer Crambus perlella
  • Yarrow Plume Moth Gillmeria pallidactyla
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami
  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • High Mountain Grasshopper Melanoplus frigidus
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii
  • Rose Grain Aphid Metopolophium dirhodum
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