Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Colour Variant

Height: 50-150cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Biennial/Perennial
Hermaphrodite, Flowering June - August (Earliest: 18.5)

Habitat:	Meadows	Hedge Rows
Pollination:	Gasteruptionidae	Many Apidae	Many Tenthredinidae	Most Argidae
	Many Ichneumonidae	Many Braconidae	Most Crabronidae	Several Vespidae
	Most Figitidae	Anoplius nigerrimus	Leucospis dorsigera	Tiphia femorata
	Torymus flavipes	Stenomalina micans	Synacra holconota	Myrmica rubra
	Several Nymphalidae	Pieris rapae	Several Tortricidae	Chiasmia clathrata
	Siona lineata	Autographa gamma	Oligia fasciuncula	Eilema griseola
	Yponomeuta padella	Nemophora degeerella	Gillmeria ochrodactyla	Many Syrphidae
	Several Muscidae	Several Empididae	Many Tachinidae	Several Sciaridae
	Several Tipulidae	Several Calliphoridae	Several Anthomyiidae	Chloromyia formosa
	Dolichopus claviger	Dolichopus ungulatus	Chyliza vittata	Sepsis fulgens
	Sepsis violacea	Bibio pomonae	Dilophus febrilis	Chlorops hypostigma
	Coenomyia ferruginea	Megamerina dolium	Sarcophaga carnaria	Temnosira saltuum
	Ectaetia clavipes	Physiphora alceae	Seioptera vibrans	Conops flavipes
	Tricholauxania praeusta	Scathophaga stercoraria	Monocentrota lundstroemi	Most Cerambycidae
	Several Nitidulidae	Several Elateridae	Several Cantharidae	Several Scraptiidae
	Mordella aculeata	Chrysanthia geniculata	Aplocnemus nigricornis	Trichius fasciatus
	Trichodes apiarius	Malachius bipustulatus	Pachnephorus pilosus	Oedemera virescens
	Molanna angustata	Panorpa vulgaris
Parasites:	Parsnip Yellow Fleck sequivirus	Erysiphe heraclei	Ramularia heraclei	Phytomyza spondylii
	Cheilosia illustrata Larva (Stem Borer)
Herbivores:	Tenthredo mesomela Larva	Ctenicera pectinicornis	Liparus germanus	Helicoverpa armigera
Sapivores:	Anuraphis subterranea
Florivores:	Hoplia argentea	Tettigonia viridissima
Granivores:	Pammene aurana Larva

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Hogweed

Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 J.K. Lindsey

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