Plant	Leaves
Flower	Fruit

Height: 10-50cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering April - June (Earliest: 13.4)

Protective Chemicals
Flavonoids	Luteolin, Vicenin

Biotopes:	Hedge Rows	Wet Forest Edge
Flower Visitors:	Several Apidae	Platygaster tisias	Platygaster marchali	Pieris napi
	Celastrina argiolus	Coenonympha pamphilus	Panemeria tenebrata	Several Empididae
	Several Syrphidae	Sepsis violacea	Alliopsis billbergi	Phorbia nuceicornis
	Bradysia albanensis	Bibio johannis	Bellardia pandia	Dioctria atricapilla
	Scathophaga stercoraria	Oedemera lurida	Dasytes niger	Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata
Parasites:	Coleophora solitariella	Scaptomyza graminum Larva (Leaf Miner)
Possible Parasites:	Liriomyza strigata
Herbivores:	Mesotype didymata	Caryocolum blandella Larva	Caryocolum kroesmanniella Larva	Cassida flaveola	Galeruca tanaceti
Possible Herbivores:	Cnephasia asseclana	Cnephasia incertana	Rhogogaster chlorosoma Larva	Rhogogaster viridis Larva
	Cylindrotoma distinctissima Larva
Florivores:	Eupithecia pygmaeata

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Greater Stitchwort

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

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