Chenopodium album Linnaeus 1753 (Family Amaranthaceae)


Plant

Leaf

Flower

Fruit

Height: 15-150cm
Rarely Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Annual
Hermaphrodite, Flowering June - October (Earliest: 4.6)

Habitat:
Meadows

Around Buildings
Pollination: Wind
Episyrphus balteatus
Herbivores:
Lacanobia oleracea

Ametastegia equiseti Larva

Ametastegia glabrata Larva

Cassida nebulosa
Sapivores:
Lygocoris pabulinus

Aphis fabae

Bactericera nigricornis
Granivores:
Alauda arvensis

Columbidae

Passeridae

Several Fringillidae

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Fat Hen


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

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