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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. Rostrales
  9. Southern Long Sedge
  10. Supports

What Southern Long Sedge supports

64 native animals
supported in the US
21 caterpillars 40 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

21 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
  • Dukes' Skipper Euphyes dukesi on true sedges
  • Two-spotted Skipper Euphyes bimacula on true sedges
  • Appalachian Brown Lethe appalachia on true sedges
  • Dion Skipper Euphyes dion on true sedges
  • Chain-dotted Geometer Cingilia catenaria on true sedges
  • Mulberry Wing Poanes massasoit on true sedges
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons on true sedges
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea on true sedges
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on true sedges
  • Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator on true sedges
  • Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus on true sedges
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos on true sedges
  • American Coot Fulica americana on true sedges
  • Green-winged Teal Anas crecca on true sedges
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum on true sedges
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on true sedges
  • Spotted Pink Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata on true sedges

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