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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex Sect. Firmiculmes
  9. Tompkins' Sedge
  10. Supports

What Tompkins' Sedge supports

30 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 24 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris 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
  • Chryxus Arctic Oeneis chryxus on true sedges

Plant eaters All

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

  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons on true sedges
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on true sedges
  • Draeculacephala angulifera on true sedges
  • Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus on true sedges
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos on true sedges
  • American Coot Fulica americana on true sedges
  • Green-winged Teal Anas crecca on true sedges
  • Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus on true sedges
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on true sedges

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