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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Rosette Grasses
  8. Variable Witchgrass
  9. Supports

What Variable Witchgrass supports

15 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 2 hosts 8 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Tawny-edged Skipper Polites themistocles on rosette grasses
  • Leonard's Skipper Hesperia leonardus on rosette grasses
  • Indian Skipper Hesperia sassacus on rosette grasses
  • Virginia Ctenucha Moth Ctenucha virginica on rosette grasses

Hosted animals All

2 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Cerodontha angulata on rosette grasses
  • Chalepus bicolor on rosette grasses

Plant eaters All

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

  • Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus on rosette grasses
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on rosette grasses
  • Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina on rosette grasses
  • Wood Duck Aix sponsa on rosette grasses
  • Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus on rosette grasses
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens on rosette grasses
  • Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana on rosette grasses
  • Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum on rosette grasses

Flower visitors All

1 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Oak Treehopper Platycotis vittata on rosette grasses

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