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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. Flatsedges
  8. Purple Nutsedge
  9. Supports

What Purple Nutsedge supports

11 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 6 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Armyworm Moth Pseudaletia unipuncta
  • Fall Armyworm Moth Spodoptera frugiperda
  • Eufala Skipper Lerodea eufala
  • Javelin Moth Bactra verutana
  • Cosmopterix attenuatella

Plant eaters All

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

  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
  • Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
  • Northern Pintail Anas acuta
  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi

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