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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Moor Grasses
  8. Molinia caerulea
  9. Purple Moor Grass
  10. Supports

What Purple Moor Grass supports

11 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 8 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum

Plant eaters All

8 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
  • Mealy Plum Aphid Hyalopterus pruni
  • Grain Aphid Sitobion fragariae
  • English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Carpet Moth Epirrhoe alternata
  • Chevron Moth Eulithis testata

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