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  3. Vascular Plants
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  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Bluegrasses
  8. Cusick's Bluegrass
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What Cusick's Bluegrass supports

26 native animals
supported in the US
19 caterpillars 6 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Armyworm Moth Pseudaletia unipuncta on bluegrasses
  • Tawny-edged Skipper Polites themistocles on bluegrasses
  • Common Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes vialis on bluegrasses
  • Common Wood-Nymph Cercyonis pegala on bluegrasses
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane on bluegrasses
  • Small Wood-Nymph Cercyonis oetus on bluegrasses
  • Leonard's Skipper Hesperia leonardus on bluegrasses
  • Garita Skipperling Oarisma garita on bluegrasses
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina on bluegrasses
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on bluegrasses
  • Canada Goose Branta canadensis on bluegrasses
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on bluegrasses
  • Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus on bluegrasses
  • Mealy Plum Aphid Hyalopterus pruni on bluegrasses

Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on bluegrasses

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