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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. Phaestoglochin
  9. Prickly Sedge
  10. Supports

What Prickly Sedge supports

22 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 19 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • 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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