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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. Scitae
  9. Short-stalk Sedge
  10. Supports

What Short-stalk Sedge supports

51 native animals
supported in the US
12 caterpillars 37 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Melissa Arctic Oeneis melissa on true sedges
  • Jutta Arctic Oeneis jutta on true sedges
  • White-veined Arctic Oeneis bore on true sedges
  • Arctic Ringlet Erebia disa on true sedges
  • Ross's Alpine Erebia rossii on true sedges
  • Yarrow Plume Moth Gillmeria pallidactyla on true sedges
  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia on true sedges
  • Lesser Wainscot Mythimna oxygala on true sedges
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on true sedges
  • Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta on true sedges
  • White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucura on true sedges
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons on true sedges
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea on true sedges
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on true sedges
  • Draeculacephala angulifera on true sedges
  • Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator on true sedges
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Flower visitors All

2 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

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