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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Saltgrass
  8. Saltgrass
  9. Supports

What Saltgrass supports

21 native animals
supported in the US
7 caterpillars 12 food 1 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Sandhill Skipper Polites sabuleti
  • Wandering Skipper Panoquina errans
  • Alkali Skipper Pseudocopaeodes eunus
  • Salt Marsh Skipper Panoquina panoquin
  • Obscure Skipper Panoquina panoquinoides
  • Range Caterpillar Moth Hemileuca oliviae
  • Field Skipper Atalopedes campestris

Plant eaters All

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

  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
  • Northern Pintail Anas acuta
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • American Coot Fulica americana
  • Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
  • Helochara delta
  • Amplicephalus littoralis
  • Coastal Grass Mealybug Tridiscus distichlii
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Reakirt's Blue Echinargus isola

Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

  • Homaluroides distichliae

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