Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Height: 6-30cm
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Lacks Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering April - May (Earliest: 20.3)

Biotopes:	Spruce Forest Edge	Hedge Rows
Seed Dispersal:	Projection	Formicidae
Flower Visitors:	Bombus lapidarius	Bombus pascuorum
Herbivores:	Several Nymphalidae Larvae
Possible Herbivores:	Several Tortricidae	Conistra erythrocephala Larva	Diarsia mendica Larva	Xanthorhoe quadrifasiata Larva
	Ametastegia equiseti Larva	Cylindrotoma distinctissima Larva
Possible Sapivores:	Mecomma ambulans	Philaenus spumarius

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Dog Violet

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

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