In southwestern and south coastal Alaska, they will attract and provide food for Rufous Hummingbirds. In addition, they provide feeding sites and cover for a variety of ground and shrub feeding and nesting species. Larkspur Delphinium spp. They also provide cover for a variety of ground-dwelling birds. They also provide valuable concealing cover for ground-nesting birds like grouse, sparrows and warblers.
Grasses also provide cover for small mammals like voles and shrews.
Se Duckweed Lemna spp. Common Snipe, Pectoral Sandpipers, Red-winged Blackbirds and other marsh birds also occasionally consume their seeds. Spikerush Eleocharis spp . 2-6' P TR, RC Cattails, bulrushes, arrowgrass and other emergents provide many species cover for nesting and escape from predators, and also produce seeds eaten by ducks and other waterbirds. Bulrush Scirpus spp .