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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. Flatsedges
  8. Redroot Flatsedge
  9. Supports

What Redroot Flatsedge supports

22 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 17 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Javelin Moth Bactra verutana on flatsedges
  • Cosmopterix attenuatella on flatsedges
  • Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris on flatsedges
  • Yellow Nutsedge Moth Diploschizia impigritella on flatsedges
  • Palatka Skipper Euphyes pilatka on flatsedges

Plant eaters All

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

  • Gadwall Mareca strepera
  • Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
  • Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis on flatsedges
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on flatsedges
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on flatsedges
  • Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae on flatsedges
  • Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus on flatsedges
  • Northern Pintail Anas acuta on flatsedges
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