Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Height: 20-90cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Persistent Seed Bank
Dioecious, Flowering May - July (Earliest: 25.5)

Protective Chemicals
Ecdysteroids	Sidisterone

Biotopes:	Hedge Rows	Spruce Forest Edge
Parasites:	Ramularia lychnidicola	Scaptomyza graminum Larva (Leaf Miner)
Herbivores::	Mesotype didymata	Perizoma flavofasciata Larva	Sideridis rivularis Larva	Cnephasia stephensiana
Possible Herbivores:	Hada plebeja	Polia nebulosa	Cnephasia incertana
Sapivores:	Dicyphus errans	Aphis fabae
Possible Sapivores:	Plagiognathus arbustorum
Florivores:	Eupithecia satyrata
Granivores:	Columbidae	Grypocoris sexguttatus

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Red Campion

Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2005 J.K. Lindsey

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