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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex Sect. Aulocystis
  9. Scorched Alpine-sedge
  10. Supports

What Scorched Alpine-sedge supports

20 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 16 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
  • Ross's Alpine Erebia rossii
  • Buff Grass-miner Elachista subalbidella
  • Cottongrass Sedge-miner Elachista albidella

Plant eaters All

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

  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
  • Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
  • Northern Pintail Anas acuta
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
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