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  3. Vascular Plants
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  7. Bluegrasses
  8. Alpinae
  9. Alpine Bluegrass
  10. Supports

What Alpine Bluegrass supports

51 native animals
supported in the US
32 caterpillars 18 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Red-disked Alpine Erebia discoidalis
  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
  • Buff Grass-miner Elachista subalbidella
  • Hobomok Skipper Lon hobomok on bluegrasses
  • Armyworm Moth Pseudaletia unipuncta on bluegrasses
  • Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor on bluegrasses
  • Tawny-edged Skipper Polites themistocles on bluegrasses
  • Common Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes vialis on bluegrasses
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Plant eaters All

18 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
  • Elm Sack Gall Aphid Tetraneura ulmi
  • Mealy Plum Aphid Hyalopterus pruni
  • High Mountain Grasshopper Melanoplus frigidus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on bluegrasses

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