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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. Cottongrasses
  8. Slender Cottongrass
  9. Supports

What Slender Cottongrass supports

7 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 4 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
  • Jutta Arctic Oeneis jutta on cottongrasses
  • Cottongrass Sedge-miner Elachista albidella on cottongrasses

Plant eaters All

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

  • Ligyrocoris sylvestris
  • American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea on cottongrasses
  • Draeculacephala angulifera on cottongrasses
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on cottongrasses

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