Polygonum depressum [arenastrum] Meisner in de Candolle 1856 (Family Polygonaceae)


Plant

Leaf

Flower

Fruit

Height: 30cm
Rarely Mycorrhizal
Annual, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering July - September (Earliest: 18.7)

Biotopes:
Meadows
Parasites:
Erysiphe polygoni
Possible Parasites:
Hydrellia griseola Larva
(Leaf Miner)
Possible Herbivores:
Idaea muricata Larva

Xanthorhoe spadicearia Larva

Diacrisia sannio Larva

Parasemia plantaginis

Clepsis consimilana Larva

Deilephila elpenor

Pachyprotasis rapae Larva

Tenthredo mioceras Larva
Possible Sapivores:
Aulacorthum solani

Macrosiphum euphorbiae

Lygus pratensis

Aphrophora alni Nymph

Ecological Flora of the British Isles


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