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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. Rock Sedge
  10. Supports

What Rock Sedge supports

63 native animals
supported in the US
17 caterpillars 45 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Melissa Arctic Oeneis melissa
  • 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
  • Jutta Arctic Oeneis jutta on true sedges
  • White-veined Arctic Oeneis bore on true sedges
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Plant eaters All

45 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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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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