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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex Sect. Vesicariae
  9. Bristly Sedge
  10. Supports

What Bristly Sedge supports

94 native animals
supported in the US
36 caterpillars 55 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • 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
  • Melissa Arctic Oeneis melissa on true sedges
  • Appalachian Brown Lethe appalachia on true sedges
  • Dion Skipper Euphyes dion on true sedges
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Blanding's Turtle Emydoidea blandingii
  • Euschistus ictericus
  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on true sedges
  • Cosmotettix paludosus on true sedges
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons on true sedges
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea on true sedges
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on true sedges
  • Draeculacephala angulifera on true sedges
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Flower visitors All

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

  • 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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