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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Bristlegrasses
  8. Knotroot Bristlegrass
  9. Supports

What Knotroot Bristlegrass supports

32 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 28 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor on bristlegrasses
  • Stalk Borer Moth Papaipema nebris on bristlegrasses

Plant eaters All

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

  • Angular Spittlebug Lepyronia angulifera
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
  • Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
  • Javesella pellucida
  • Corn Leaf Aphid Rhopalosiphum maidis
  • English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae
  • Grain Aphid Sitobion fragariae
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Barred Yellow Eurema daira
  • Bold Jumping Spider Phidippus audax on bristlegrasses

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