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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Moor Grasses
  8. Molinia caerulea
  9. Purple Moor Grass
  10. Supports

What Purple Moor Grass supports

19 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 10 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Buff Grass-miner Elachista subalbidella
  • Ruby Tiger Moth Phragmatobia fuliginosa
  • Jutta Arctic Oeneis jutta
  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia

Plant eaters All

10 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
  • Mealy Plum Aphid Hyalopterus pruni
  • English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae
  • Grain Aphid Sitobion fragariae
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Common Carpet Moth Epirrhoe alternata
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Small Phoenix Ecliptopera silaceata
  • July Highflyer Moth Hydriomena furcata

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