Plant	Leaves
Flower	Fruit

Height: 10-40cm
Rarely Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Stoloniferous, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering May - July (Earliest: 16.5)

Biotopes:	Meadows	Hedge Rows
Flower Visitors:	Pieris napi	Coenonympha pamphilus	Pteromalus elevatus	Several Empididae
	Several Syrphidae	Siphona geniculata	Pollenia rudis	Scathophaga stercoraria
	Crossopalpus nigritellus
Parasites:	Scaptomyza graminum Larva (Leaf Miner)
Possible Parasites:	Liriomyza strigata
Herbivores:	Euphyia biangulata Larva	Galeruca tanaceti	Cassida flaveola
Possible Herbivores:	Cnephasia asseclana	Cnephasia incertana	Rhogogaster chlorosoma Larva	Rhogogaster viridis Larva
	Cylindrotoma distinctissima Larva
Granivores:	Coleophora striatipennella Larva

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Lesser Stitchwort

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