Plant |
Leaf |
Flower |
Fruit |
|
Plant |
Leaf |
|
Flower |
Fruit |
Height: 20-100cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Rhizomatous
Hermaphrodite, Flowering May - September
(Earliest: 30.4)
| Protective Chemicals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terpenoids | Friedelin | ||||
| Phenolics | Gallic Acid, Tannins | ||||
| Acids | Oxalic | ||||
| Sterols | Sitosterol | ||||
| Biotopes: |
Wet Meadows |
Wet Forest | ||
| Flower Visitors: |
Several Apidae |
Several Tenthredinidae |
Odynerus spinipes |
Most Lycaenidae |
Several Nymphalidae |
Ochlodes sylvanus |
Pyrgus malvae |
Aporia crataegi | |
Pieris napi |
Several Erebidae |
Several Geometridae |
Autographa gamma | |
Oligia fasciuncula |
Adela croesella |
Synanthedon spheciformis |
Adscita statices | |
Anthophila fabriciana |
Crambus lathoniellus |
Several Empidae |
Several Syrphidae | |
Phaonia angelicae |
Phaonia nymphaearum |
Ochlerotatus punctor |
Cynomya mortuorum | |
Empis livida |
Cylindromyia brassicaria |
Sarcophaga carnaria |
Several Cerambycidae | |
Several Chrysomelidae |
Several Oedemeridae |
Trichius fasciatus |
Malachius bipustulatus | |
Coreus marginatus |
Panorpa communis | |||
| Parasites: |
Erysiphe polygoni |
Ramularia bistortae |
Septoria polygonorum |
Puccinia bistortae |
Chromatomyia horticola Larva (Leaf Miner) |
Otiorhynchus coecus Larva | |||
| Herbivores: |
Lycaena helle Larva |
Boloria aquilonaris |
Boloria eunomia |
Charanyca ferruginea Larva |
Ametastegia glabrata Larva |
Ametastegia tenera |
Hypera rumicis |
Cepaea | |
| Possible Herbivores: |
Idaea muricata Larva |
Xanthorhoe spadicearia Larva |
Diacrisia sannio Larva |
Parasemia plantaginis |
Clepsis consimilana Larva |
Deilephila elpenor | |||
| Sapivores: |
Lygus wagneri |
Aphis fabae | ||
| Possible Sapivores: |
Aulacorthum solani |
Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora:
Bistort
Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2005 J.K. Lindsey
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