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

What Rough Fescue supports

9 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 3 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami on fescues
  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius on fescues
  • Sod Webworm Moth Pediasia trisecta on fescues
  • Bordered Apamea Moth Apamea sordens on fescues
  • Nevada Skipper Hesperia nevada on fescues
  • Uhler's Arctic Oeneis uhleri on fescues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on fescues
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on fescues
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on fescues

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