What Blue Sedge supports

24 native animals
supported in the US

4 caterpillars 19 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami
• Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
• Buff Grass-miner Elachista subalbidella
• Cottongrass Sedge-miner Elachista albidella

Plant eaters All

19 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
• Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
• Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii
• Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia

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Flower visitors All

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

• Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum