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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. Cottongrasses
  8. Tussock Cottongrass
  9. Supports

What Tussock Cottongrass supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 9 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
  • Jutta Arctic Oeneis jutta
  • Cottongrass Sedge-miner Elachista albidella on cottongrasses

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • American Black Bear Ursus americanus
  • Ligyrocoris sylvestris
  • American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea on cottongrasses
  • Draeculacephala angulifera on cottongrasses
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