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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. Rostrales
  9. Pine Barren Sedge
  10. Supports

What Pine Barren Sedge supports

47 native animals
supported in the US
10 caterpillars 34 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

10 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
  • Dukes' Skipper Euphyes dukesi on true sedges
  • Appalachian Brown Lethe appalachia on true sedges
  • Dion Skipper Euphyes dion on true sedges
  • Cosmopterix clemensella on true sedges
  • Broad-winged Skipper Poanes viator on true sedges
  • Black-dotted Glyph Maliattha synochitis on true sedges
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons on true sedges
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens 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
  • Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus on true sedges
  • Sora Porzana carolina 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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