Plant 
Flower |
Leaf 
Fruit |
|
Plant
Flower |
Leaf
Fruit |
Height: 15-150cm
Rarely Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Annual, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering June - October
(Earliest: 30.5)
| Protective Chemicals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steroids | Hydroxyecdysone, Polypodine | ||||
| Amines | Trimethylamine | ||||
| Other | Oxalates, Nitrates | ||||
| Biotopes: |
Meadows |
Gardens | ||
| Microhabitat: |
Bare Ground | |||
| Pollination: | Wind | |||
| Flower Visitors: |
Episyrphus balteatus |
Neoascia podagrica | ||
| Parasites: |
Ascochyta chenopodii |
Stagonospora atriplicis |
Puccinia aristidae |
Chrysoesthia drurella Larva (Leaf Miner) |
Chrysoesthia sexguttella |
Several Agromyzidae |
Pegomya betae |
Pegomya hyoscyami | |
Scaptomyza graminum Larva (Leaf Miner) | ||||
| Herbivores: |
Vanessa cardui |
Many Noctuidae |
Several Tortricidae |
Diaphora mendica |
Pleuroptya ruralis |
Ametastegia equiseti Larva |
Ametastegia glabrata Larva |
Cassida nebulosa | |
Cassida vittata |
Aclypea opaca |
Chaetocnema concinna | ||
| Sapivores: |
Several Aphididae |
Several Miridae |
Brachycarenus tigrinus |
Thrips fuscipennis |
| Granivores: |
Columbidae |
Passeridae |
Several Fringillidae |
Alauda arvensis |
Closterotomus fulvomaculatus |
Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora:
Fat Hen
Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2005 J.K. Lindsey
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