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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. St. Augustine Grass
  8. Saint Augustine Grass
  9. Supports

What Saint Augustine Grass supports

30 native animals
supported in the US
13 caterpillars 3 food 13 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • Clouded Skipper Lerema accius
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes celia
  • Field Skipper Atalopedes campestris
  • Little Wood Satyr Megisto cymela
  • Tawny Emperor Asterocampa clyton
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane
  • Eufala Skipper Lerodea eufala
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Swamp Rabbit Sylvilagus aquaticus
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis
  • Dikraneura abnormis

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia
  • Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
  • Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus
  • Phaon Crescent Phyciodes phaon
  • Little Yellow Eurema lisa
  • Arabesque Orbweaver Neoscona arabesca
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Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

  • Encyrtid Parasitoid Neodusmetia sangwani

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