Cerastium glomeratum Thuillier 1799 (Family Caryophyllaceae)


Plant

Leaves

Flower

Fruit

Height: 5-30cm
Annual, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering April - October (Earliest: 21.4)

Biotopes:
Meadows
Flower Visitors:
Empis pennipes
Parasites:
Coleophora solitariella

Scaptomyza graminum Larva (Leaf Miner)
Possible Parasites:
Delia florilega Larva (Leaf Miner)
Herbivores:
Cnephasia incertana

Euphyia biangulata Larva
Possible Herbivores:
Cnephasia asseclana

Cnephasia stephensiana

Scythris knochella Larva

Cassida flaveola

Galeruca tanaceti
Possible Florivores:
Eupithecia pygmaeata
Possible Granivores:
Amara familiaris

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Sticky Mouse-ear


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