Plant	Leaves
Flower	Fruit

Height: 20-80cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Stoloniferous, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering May - July (Earliest: 10.5)

Protective Chemicals
Flavonoids	Apigenin, Luteolin
Other Phenolics	Caffeic Acid

Biotopes:	Wet Meadows	Peat Bogs and Mires
Flower Visitors:	Bombus pratorum	Several Pieridae	Ochlodes sylvanus	Thymelicus sylvestris
	Polyommatus icarus	Aglais urticae	Boloria selene	Euclidia glyphica
	Rhingia campestris
Parasites:	Liriomyza strigata	Scaptomyza graminum Larva (Leaf Miner)	Hydrellia griseola Larva (Leaf Miner)
Herbivores:	Sideridis rivularis Larva	Cnephasia longana Larva	Cassida hemisphaerica
Possible Herbivores:	Hada plebeja	Polia nebulosa	Cnephasia incertana
Sapivores:	Aphis sambuci	Philaenus spumarius
Possible Sapivores:	Plagiognathus arbustorum
Florivores:	Eupithecia satyrata

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Ragged Robin

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

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