Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Colour Variant

Height: 50-150cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Biennial/Perennial, Lacks Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering June - August (Earliest: 1.5)

Protective Chemicals
Coumarins	Osthol, Umbelliferone
Furanocoumarins	Bergapten, Imperatorin, Isopimpinellin, Methoxsalen, Pimpinellin, Sphondin
Phenolics	Asarone, Methyl Isoeugenol
Acids	Linoleic, Petroselinic
Polyacetylenes	Cetyl Alcohol, Falcarindiol, Falcarinol, Octanol
Sterols	Sitosterol

Biotopes:	Meadows	Hedge Rows
Flower Visitors:	Many Apidae	Most Argidae	Many Braconidae	Many Crabronidae
	Many Figitidae	Gasteruptionidae	Many Ichneumonidae	Several Pompilidae
	Several Pteromalidae	Many Tenthredinidae	Several Torymidae	Many Vespidae
	Leucospis dorsigera	Tiphia minuta	Synacra holconota	Chrysis ignita
	Monosapyga clavicornis	Brachyserphus parvulus	Myrmica rubra	Several Nymphalidae
	Pieris napi	Callophrys rubi	Lycaena phlaeas	Several Erebidae
	Many Geometridae	Several Noctuidae	Many Tortricidae	Gillmeria ochrodactyla
	Stenoptilia aridus	Yponomeuta evonymella	Yponomeuta padella	Crambus lathoniellus
	Crambus perlella	Mompha conturbatella	Nemophora degeerella	Anthophila fabriciana
	Luquetia lobella	Adscita statices	Several Anthomyiidae	Several Calliphoridae
	Several Chloropidae	Several Conopidae	Many Empididae	Several Fanniidae
	Several Keroplatidae	Several Lauxaniidae	Many Muscidae	Several Mycetophilidae
	Several Sarcophagidae	Several Scathophagidae	Several Scatopsidae	Several Sciaridae
	Several Sepsidae	Many Syrphidae	Several Tabanidae	Many Tachinidae
	Several Tipulidae	Suillia fuscicornis	Suillia gigantea	Bibio johannis
	Dilophus febrilis	Chloromyia formosa	Microchrysa polita	Palloptera umbellatarum
	Temnosira saltuum	Seioptera vibrans	Physiphora alceae	Dolichopus ungulatus
	Hercostomus gracilis	Coenomyia ferruginea	Paraclusia tigrina	Rhagio vitripennis
	Phora stictica	Macrolabis heraclei	Ochlerotatus geniculatus	Setisquamalonchaea fumosa
	Camilla glabra	Drosophila suzukii	Serromyia atra	Opomyza florum
	Many Cantharidae	Many Cerambycidae	Several Chrysomelidae	Many Elateridae
	Several Mordellidae	Several Nitidulidae	Most Oedemeridae	Several Rutelidae
	Several Scraptiidae	Oxythyrea funesta	Trichius fasciatus	Byturus ochraceus
	Byturus tomentosus	Anthomalachius strangulatus	Malachius bipustulatus	Otiorhynchus ovatus
	Polydrusus cervinus	Dasytes niger	Pyrochroa coccinea	Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
	Lagria hirta	Philonthus politus	Antherophagus pallens	Sphaeridium lunatum
	Anatis ocellata	Anthrenus verbasci	Harmonia axyridis	Trichodes apiarius
	Many Miridae	Coreus marginatus	Dolycoris baccarum	Ecclisopteryx guttulata
	Limnephilus sparsus	Panorpa communis	Panorpa vulgaris	Chrysoperla carnea
	Nothochrysa capitata
Parasites:	Parsnip Yellow Fleck sequivirus	Phloeospora heraclei	Ramularia heraclei	Erysiphe heraclei
	Protomyces macrosporus	Epermenia chaerophyllella	Cnephasia incertana	Several Agromyzidae
	Cheilosia illustrata Larva (Root & Stem Borer)	Cheilosia pagana Larva (Root & Stem Borer)	Temnosira saltuum Larva (Stem Borer)	Macrolabis heraclei Larva (Leaf Gall)
	Several Cerambycidae Larvae (Stem Borers)	Otiorhynchus coecus Larva
Herbivores:	Papilio machaon	Several Tortricidae	Autographa pulchrina	Helicoverpa armigera
	Agonopterix ciliella	Agonopterix heracliana Larva	Udea lutealis Larva	Eupithecia vulgata Larva
	Several Tenthredinidae Larvae	Liophloeus tessulatus	Liparus germanus	Chrysolina oricalcia
Sapivores:	Several Aphididae	Several Pentatomidae	Orthops campestris	Eupteryx aurata
Florivores:	Depressaria radiella	Sitochroa palealis Larva	Eupithecia tripunctaria	Tettigonia viridissima
Granivores:	Pammene aurana Larva	Sitochroa palealis Larva	Orthops basalis
Decomposers:	Ascochyta grovei

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Hogweed

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