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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Rushes
  7. Wiwi
  8. Steirochloa
  9. Saltmeadow Rush
  10. Supports

What Saltmeadow Rush supports

26 native animals
supported in the US
9 caterpillars 17 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Mottled Marble Bactra furfurana
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami
  • Grey Rush Case-bearer Coleophora glaucicolella
  • Javelin Moth Bactra verutana on wiwi
  • Jutta Arctic Oeneis jutta on wiwi
  • Yarrow Plume Moth Gillmeria pallidactyla on wiwi
  • Streaked Coleophora Moth Coleophora cratipennella on wiwi
  • Coleophora concolorella on wiwi
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
  • Javesella pellucida
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