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

What Common Reed supports

27 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 17 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Broad-winged Skipper Poanes viator
  • Marsh Dagger Acronicta insularis
  • Bordered Apamea Moth Apamea sordens
  • Yuma Skipper Ochlodes yuma
  • Yarrow Plume Moth Gillmeria pallidactyla on common reed

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
  • Mealy Plum Aphid Hyalopterus pruni
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Common Snapping Turtle Chelydra serpentina
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Pond Slider Trachemys scripta
  • Furrow Orbweaver Larinioides cornutus
  • Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
  • Rice Stink Bug Oebalus pugnax

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