Plant	Leaves
Flower	Fruit

Height: 15-50cm
Ericoid Mycorrhizal
Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering June - October (Earliest: 6.6)

Biotopes:	Peat Bogs and Mires	Wet Forest Edge
Flower Visitors:	Several Apidae	Aphantopus hyperantus	Boloria aquilonaris
Herbivores:	Callophrys rubi Larva	Several Erebidae	Several Geometridae Larvae	Several Noctuidae
	Several Tortricidae Larvae	Matilella fusca Larva	Pempelia palumbella Larva	Macrothylacia rubi
	Trichiura crataegi Larva	Pleurota bicostella Larva	Neofaculta ericetella Larva	Saturnia pavonia
	Altica oleracea	Lochmaea suturalis
Sapivores:	Macrodema microptera
Florivores:	Several Geometridae
Granivores:	Scolopostethus affinis	Scolopostethus decoratus

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Cross-leaved Heather

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

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