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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. Pictae
  9. Painted Sedge
  10. Supports

What Painted Sedge supports

63 native animals
supported in the US
19 caterpillars 41 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

19 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
  • Black Dash Euphyes conspicua on true sedges
  • Dukes' Skipper Euphyes dukesi on true sedges
  • Appalachian Brown Lethe appalachia on true sedges
  • Dion Skipper Euphyes dion on true sedges
  • Mulberry Wing Poanes massasoit on true sedges
  • Virginia Ctenucha Moth Ctenucha virginica on true sedges
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Plant eaters All

41 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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