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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Shortleaf Fescue
  9. Supports

What Shortleaf Fescue supports

14 native animals
supported in the US
11 caterpillars 3 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Sandhill Skipper Polites sabuleti
  • White-veined Arctic Oeneis bore
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami on fescues
  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius on fescues
  • Sod Webworm Moth Pediasia trisecta on fescues
  • Alberta Arctic Oeneis alberta on fescues
  • Bordered Apamea Moth Apamea sordens on fescues
  • Nevada Skipper Hesperia nevada on fescues
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on fescues
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on fescues
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on fescues

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