Plant |
Leaf |
Flower |
Fruit |
|
Plant |
Leaf |
|
Flower |
Fruit |
Height: 20-50cm
Never Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering April - June
(Earliest: 16.4)
| Protective Chemicals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glucosinolates | Benzyl, Methylethyl, Methylpentyl, Methylpropyl, Sinalbin | ||||
| Biotopes: |
Wet Meadows | |||
| Flower Visitors: |
Apis mellifera |
Bombus terrestris |
Anthocharis cardamines |
Pieris napi |
Pyrgus malvae |
Lycaena helle |
Polyommatus icarus |
Coenonympha pamphilus | |
Cauchas rufimitrella |
Euclidia glyphica |
Panemeria tenebrata |
Adscita statices | |
Several Empidae |
Many Syrphidae |
Phaonia pullata |
Pachytodes cerambyciformis | |
Plateumaris discolor |
Oedemera nobilis |
Brassicogethes subaeneus |
Byturus tomentosus | |
Ctenicera pectinicornis | ||||
| Parasites: |
Erysiphe cruciferarum | |||
| Possible Parasites: |
Liriomyza strigata |
Ceutorhynchus assimilis (Larval Root Gall) | ||
| Herbivores: |
Pieris napi Larva |
Pieris rapae |
Several Chrysomelidae | |
| Possible Herbivores: |
Cnephasia incertana |
Plutella xylostella Larva |
Athalia rosae Larva |
Several Chrysomelidae |
| Sapivores: |
Eurydema dominulus | |||
| Florivores: |
Brassicogethes subaeneus Larva | |||
| Granivores: |
Anthocharis cardamines Larva |
Cauchas rufimitrella Larva |
Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora:
Cuckoo Flower
Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2005 J.K. Lindsey
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