Top native monocots
75 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Gray's Sedge
Carex grayi
keystone
caterpillars
34
food
57
flowers
4
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Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
keystone
caterpillars
33
food
55
flowers
5
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Broad-leaved Sedge
Carex platyphylla
keystone
caterpillars
32
food
52
flowers
3
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Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
keystone
caterpillars
20
food
44
flowers
6
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Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
keystone
caterpillars
20
food
30
shelter
1
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Woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus
caterpillars
13
food
29
flowers
1
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Saint Augustine Grass
Stenotaphrum secundatum
caterpillars
13
food
3
flowers
13
shelter
1
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Roundleaf Greenbrier
Smilax rotundifolia
caterpillars
12
food
27
flowers
7
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Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
caterpillars
12
food
15
flowers
5
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Soft Rush
Juncus effusus
caterpillars
9
hosts
1
food
31
flowers
4
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Slender Path Rush
Juncus tenuis
caterpillars
9
food
27
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Smooth Carrionflower
Smilax herbacea
caterpillars
8
food
6
flowers
16
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Bottlebrush Grass
Elymus hystrix
keystone
caterpillars
8
food
5
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Common Yucca
Yucca filamentosa
caterpillars
8
food
2
flowers
2
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Aloe Yucca
Yucca aloifolia
caterpillars
8
food
2
flowers
2
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Great Plains Yucca
Yucca glauca
caterpillars
8
food
1
flowers
2
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Weak-leaf Yucca
Yucca flaccida
caterpillars
8
flowers
2
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Deertongue
Dichanthelium clandestinum
caterpillars
7
hosts
2
food
8
flowers
7
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Bristly Greenbrier
Smilax tamnoides
caterpillars
7
food
27
flowers
23
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Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
caterpillars
7
food
16
flowers
34
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Laurel-leaf Greenbrier
Smilax laurifolia
caterpillars
7
food
7
flowers
3
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Sawbrier
Smilax glauca
caterpillars
7
food
6
flowers
2
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Saw Greenbrier
Smilax bona-nox
caterpillars
6
food
31
flowers
5
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Cabbage Palmetto
Sabal palmetto
caterpillars
6
food
14
flowers
29
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Coral Greenbrier
Smilax walteri
caterpillars
6
food
7
flowers
2
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Saw Palmetto
Serenoa repens
caterpillars
6
food
5
flowers
73
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Pickerelweed
Pontederia cordata
caterpillars
4
bees
3
food
7
flowers
124
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Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
caterpillars
3
food
3
flowers
60
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Southwestern Bristlegrass
Setaria scheelei
caterpillars
2
food
24
flowers
1
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Nimblewill
Muhlenbergia schreberi
caterpillars
2
food
11
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Squarestem Spikerush
Eleocharis quadrangulata
caterpillars
2
food
11
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Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
caterpillars
2
food
10
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Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
caterpillars
2
food
6
flowers
1
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Broadleaf Signalgrass
Urochloa platyphylla
caterpillars
2
food
3
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Arisaema triphyllum
caterpillars
2
food
2
flowers
11
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Indian Shot
Canna indica
caterpillars
2
food
1
flowers
14
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Lyme Grass
Leymus arenarius
caterpillars
2
food
1
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Wide Leek
Allium tricoccum
caterpillars
1
hosts
1
food
2
flowers
76
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Sea Oats
Uniola paniculata
caterpillars
1
food
6
shelter
1
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Hairy Solomon's-seal
Polygonatum pubescens
caterpillars
1
food
1
flowers
8
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Powdery Thalia
Thalia dealbata
caterpillars
1
food
1
flowers
2
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Dwarf Palmetto
Sabal minor
caterpillars
1
flowers
5
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Little Sweet Betsy
Trillium cuneatum
caterpillars
1
flowers
3
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Perfoliate Bellwort
Uvularia perfoliata
caterpillars
1
flowers
3
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Yellow Wakerobin
Trillium luteum
caterpillars
1
flowers
2
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Prairie Trillium
Trillium recurvatum
caterpillars
1
flowers
1
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Drooping Trillium
Trillium flexipes
caterpillars
1
flowers
1
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Southern Red Trillium
Trillium sulcatum
caterpillars
1
flowers
1
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White Fawnlily
Erythronium albidum
bees
1
flowers
42
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Greater Duckweed
Spirodela polyrhiza
food
7