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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex crinita
  9. Great Smoky Mountain Sedge
  10. Supports

What Great Smoky Mountain Sedge supports

52 native animals
supported in the US
12 caterpillars 37 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris on true sedges
  • Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia Moth Pseudeustrotia carneola on true sedges
  • Black Dash Euphyes conspicua on true sedges
  • Appalachian Brown Lethe appalachia on true sedges
  • Dion Skipper Euphyes dion on true sedges
  • Broad-winged Skipper Poanes viator on true sedges
  • Yarrow Plume Moth Gillmeria pallidactyla on true sedges
  • Black-dotted Glyph Maliattha synochitis on true sedges
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on true sedges
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons on true sedges
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on true sedges
  • Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus on true sedges
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos on true sedges
  • American Coot Fulica americana on true sedges
  • Green-winged Teal Anas crecca on true sedges
  • American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea on true sedges
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum on true sedges
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on true sedges
  • Spotted Pink Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata on true sedges

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