Top native carex sect. acrocystis
20 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Long-stolon Sedge
Carex inops
keystone
caterpillars
37
food
49
flowers
3
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Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
keystone
caterpillars
33
food
55
flowers
5
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Fibrous-rooted Sedge
Carex communis
keystone
caterpillars
33
food
55
flowers
3
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Shaved Sedge
Carex tonsa
keystone
caterpillars
33
food
54
flowers
3
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Parasol Sedge
Carex umbellata
keystone
caterpillars
33
food
54
flowers
3
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Blue Ridge Sedge
Carex lucorum
keystone
caterpillars
33
food
54
flowers
3
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White-tinged Sedge
Carex albicans
keystone
caterpillars
32
food
53
flowers
3
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Ross's Sedge
Carex rossii
keystone
caterpillars
32
food
46
flowers
3
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Northern Sedge
Carex deflexa
keystone
caterpillars
31
food
50
flowers
3
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Peck's Sedge
Carex peckii
keystone
caterpillars
29
food
52
flowers
3
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Black-edge Sedge
Carex nigromarginata
keystone
caterpillars
29
food
49
flowers
3
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Reznicek's Sedge
Carex reznicekii
keystone
caterpillars
19
food
40
flowers
3
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Southern Blue-ridge Sedge
Carex austrolucorum
keystone
caterpillars
18
food
39
flowers
3
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Canebrake Sedge
Carex austrodeflexa
keystone
caterpillars
12
food
36
flowers
3
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Florida Sedge
Carex floridana
keystone
caterpillars
10
food
36
flowers
2
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Brainerd's Sedge
Carex brainerdii
keystone
caterpillars
6
food
27
flowers
2
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Short-stemmed Sedge
Carex zikae
caterpillars
5
food
31
flowers
3
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Round-fruited Sedge
Carex globosa
keystone
caterpillars
5
food
28
flowers
3
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Serpentine Sedge
Carex serpenticola
keystone
caterpillars
4
food
23
flowers
2
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Loving Sedge
Carex pityophila