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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex Sect. Cyperoideae
  9. Ebony Sedge
  10. Supports

What Ebony Sedge supports

57 native animals
supported in the US
16 caterpillars 39 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris on true sedges
  • Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia Moth Pseudeustrotia carneola on true sedges
  • Two-spotted Skipper Euphyes bimacula on true sedges
  • Melissa Arctic Oeneis melissa on true sedges
  • Jutta Arctic Oeneis jutta on true sedges
  • White-veined Arctic Oeneis bore on true sedges
  • Tufted Sedge Moth Hypocoena inquinata on true sedges
  • Yarrow Plume Moth Gillmeria pallidactyla on true sedges
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on true sedges
  • White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucura on true sedges
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons on true sedges
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea on true sedges
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on true sedges
  • Draeculacephala angulifera on true sedges
  • Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator on true sedges
  • Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus on true sedges
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on true sedges
  • Spotted Pink Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata on true sedges

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