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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Altai Fescue
  9. Supports

What Altai Fescue supports

8 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 2 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami on fescues
  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia on fescues
  • White-veined Arctic Oeneis bore on fescues
  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius on fescues
  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma on fescues
  • Yellow Satin Veneer Crambus perlella on fescues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Snowshoe Hare Lepus americanus
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on fescues

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