Plant |
Leaf |
Flower |
Fruit |
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Plant |
Leaf |
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Flower |
Fruit |
Height: 8-50cm
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering June - October
(Earliest: 3.5)
| Protective Chemicals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sesquiterpenoids | Protoanemonin | ||||
| Biotopes: |
Wet Meadows |
Pond Edge |
Temporary Pools |
Stream Banks |
| Flower Visitors: |
Several Syrphidae |
Rhamphomyia aethiops |
Thricops semicinereus |
Mordella holomelaena |
Oedemera nobilis |
Eusphalerum atrum |
Donacia semicuprea |
Dasytes niger | |
| Parasites: |
Ramularia didyma |
Phytomyza ranunculi |
Pseudodineura fuscula | |
| Herbivores: |
Hydrothassa glabra |
Hydrothassa marginella | ||
| Possible Herbivores: |
Several Tortricidae |
Callimorpha dominula |
Xestia triangulum Larva |
Many Tenthredinidae |
Otiorhynchus porcatus | ||||
| Sapivores: |
Aphrophora alni Nymph | |||
| Possible Sapivores: |
Aphis fabae | |||
| Possible Florivores: |
Cnephasia pasiuana |
Cryptocephalus hypochaeridis | ||
| Possible Granivores: |
Rhopalus maculatus |
Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora:
Lesser Spearwort
Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 J.K. Lindsey
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