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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Bulrush and Cattail Family
  7. Bur-reeds
  8. Branching Bur-reed
  9. Supports

What Branching Bur-reed supports

10 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 6 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami on bur-reeds
  • Cattail Borer Moth Bellura obliqua on bur-reeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Canada Goose Branta canadensis on bur-reeds
  • Donacia caerulea on bur-reeds
  • Green-winged Teal Anas crecca on bur-reeds
  • Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris on bur-reeds
  • Bog Leafhopper Helochara communis on bur-reeds
  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae on bur-reeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on bur-reeds
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura on bur-reeds

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