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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. Cyperoideae
  9. Oval Sedge
  10. Supports

What Oval Sedge supports

55 native animals
supported in the US
11 caterpillars 41 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

11 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
  • Melissa Arctic Oeneis melissa on true sedges
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane on true sedges
  • Yarrow Plume Moth Gillmeria pallidactyla on true sedges
  • Lesser Wainscot Mythimna oxygala on true sedges
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
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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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