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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 Capitata Clade
  9. Bristle Sedge
  10. Supports

What Bristle Sedge supports

61 native animals
supported in the US
17 caterpillars 43 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
  • Buff Grass-miner Elachista subalbidella
  • Cottongrass Sedge-miner Elachista albidella
  • Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris on true sedges
  • Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia Moth Pseudeustrotia carneola 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
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Plant eaters All

43 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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Flower visitors All

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

  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on true sedges

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