Cardamine hirsuta Linnaeus 1753 (Family Brassicaceae)


Plant

Leaves

Flower

Fruit

Height: 5-25cm
Rarely Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Annual, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering February - November (Earliest: 25.2)

Biotopes:
Meadows

Gardens
Microhabitat:
Bare Ground
Flower Visitors:
Andrena cineraria

Andrena haemorrhoa

Anthocharis cardamines

Pieris rapae

Rhingia campestris

Rhamphomyia sulcata

Bibio johannis

Bellardia viarum
Seed Dispersal: Projection
Parasites:
Erysiphe cruciferarum
Possible Parasites:
Liriomyza strigata

Ceutorhynchus assimilis
(Larval Root Gall)
Herbivores:
Pieris rapae

Xanthorhoe fluctuata Larva

Athalia liberta Larva

Several Chrysomelidae
Possible Herbivores:
Cnephasia incertana

Plutella xylostella Larva

Athalia rosae Larva

Several Chrysomelidae
Sapivores:
Aulacorthum solani

Myzus cerasi
Possible Florivores:
Brassicogethes subaeneus Larva
Granivores:
Anthocharis cardamines Larva

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Hairy Bittercress


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