Cardamine flexuosa Withering 1796 (Family Brassicaceae)


Plant

Flower

Leaf

Fruit

Height: 20-40cm
Never Mycorrhizal
Annual/Biennial, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering April - July (Earliest: 10.4)

Biotopes:
Spruce Forest Edge
Pollination: Autopollination
Flower Visitors:
Platycheirus albimanus
Parasites:
Erysiphe cruciferarum
Possible Parasites:
Liriomyza strigata

Ceutorhynchus assimilis
(Larval Root Gall)
Herbivores:
Pieris napi Larva

Phyllotreta tetrastigma
Possible Herbivores:
Cnephasia incertana

Plutella xylostella Larva

Athalia rosae Larva

Several Chrysomelidae
Possible Florivores:
Brassicogethes subaeneus Larva
Granivores:
Anthocharis cardamines Larva

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Wavy Bittercress


Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 J.K. Lindsey

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