Epilobium [Chamerion] angustifolium Linnaeus 1753 (Family Onagraceae)


Plant

Leaf

Flower

Fruit

Height: 50-180cm
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Stoloniferous
Hermaphrodite, Flowering June - September (Earliest: 9.6)

Habitat:
Hedge Rows
Pollination:
Several Apidae

Several Vespidae

Gorytes quadrifasciatus

Several Nymphalidae

Pieris napi

Pieris rapae

Autographa gamma

Spargania luctuata

Sitochroa verticalis

Anthophila fabriciana

Several Syrphidae

Several Muscidae

Siphona cristata

Sarcophaga carnaria

Empis livida

Empis variegata

Calliphora vicina

Scathophaga stercoraria

Panorpa vulgaris
Seed Dispersal: Wind
Parasites:
Mompha raschkiella Larva
(Leaf Miner)
Leaf Cutters:
Megachile lapponica
Herbivores:
Spargania luctuata Larva

Mompha idaei Larva

Deilephila elpenor

Phyllobius glaucus

Altica oleracea

Bromius obscurus
Sapivores:
Lygocoris pabulinus

Aphrophora alni

Sonronius dahlbomi
Nests:
Sylvia borin

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Fireweed


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