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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex Annectens Clade
  9. Fox Sedge
  10. Supports

What Fox Sedge supports

102 native animals
supported in the US
38 caterpillars 59 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
  • Buff Grass-miner Elachista subalbidella
  • Cottongrass Sedge-miner Elachista albidella
  • Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris on true sedges
  • Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia Moth Pseudeustrotia carneola on true sedges
  • Black Dash Euphyes conspicua on true sedges
  • Dukes' Skipper Euphyes dukesi on true sedges
  • Two-spotted Skipper Euphyes bimacula on true sedges
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Sora Porzana carolina
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
  • Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
  • Northern Pintail Anas acuta
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Diamondback Spittlebug Lepyronia quadrangularis
  • Orange-tipped Wood-digger Anthophora terminalis
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum on true sedges
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on true sedges
  • Spotted Pink Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata on true sedges

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