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Height: 5-70cm
Rarely Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Rhizomatous, Persistent Seed Bank
Monoecious, Flowering May - June
(Earliest: 28.4)
| Biotopes: |
Peat Bogs and Mires |
Wet Meadows |
Heath and Moorland | |
| Flower Visitors: |
Platycheirus clypeatus | |||
| Pollination: | Wind | |||
| Parasites: |
Puccinia caricina | |||
| Other Possible Parasites: |
Elachista subalbidella Larva (Leaf Miner) |
Cordilura Larvae (Stem Borers) |
Psila fimetaria Larva (Stem Borer) | |
| Herbivores: |
Denticucullus pygmina Larva |
Mythimna impura |
Deltote pygarga |
Pachynematus vagus Larva |
Donacia impressa Larva |
Plateumaris affinis Larva | |||
| Possible Herbivores: |
Euthrix potatoria |
Hypenodes humidalis Larva |
Many Tenthredinidae |
Plateumaris discolor Larva |
| Sapivores: |
Neophilaenus lineatus |
Philaenus spumarius | ||
| Possible Sapivores: |
Several Cicadellidae |
Stenodema calcarata |
Delphacodes venosus |
Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora:
Common Sedge
Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2006 J.K. Lindsey
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