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  3. Vascular Plants
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  6. Bulrush and Cattail Family
  7. Cattails
  8. Broadleaf Cattail
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What Broadleaf Cattail supports

42 native animals
supported in the US
13 caterpillars 22 food 7 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Oblique-banded Leafroller Moth Choristoneura rosaceana
  • Julia's Dicymolomia Moth Dicymolomia julianalis
  • Shy Cosmet Moth Limnaecia phragmitella
  • Potato Tuber Moth Phthorimaea operculella
  • Smeared Dagger Acronicta oblinita
  • Cattail Borer Moth Bellura obliqua
  • False Wainscot Leucania pseudargyria
  • Pickerelweed Borer Moth Bellura densa
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • American Coot Fulica americana
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • American Beaver Castor canadensis
  • Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Cattail Bug Holcocranum saturejae
  • Bold Jumping Spider Phidippus audax
  • Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
  • Dicyrtomina ornata
  • Black-legged Meadow Katydid Orchelimum nigripes
  • Pale-spotted Seed Bug Pseudopachybrachius basalis

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