Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Height: 20-100cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Rhizomatous
Hermaphrodite, Flowering May - September (Earliest: 10.5)

Habitat:	Wet Meadows
Pollination:	Several Apidae	Several Tenthredo	Odynerus spinipes	Most Lycaenidae
	Several Nymphalidae	Ochlodes sylvanus	Pyrgus malvae	Aporia crataegi
	Pieris napi	Several Geometridae	Several Noctuidae	Nemophora degeerella
	Atolmis rubricollis	Synanthedon spheciformis	Adscita statices	Anthophila fabriciana
	Crambus lathoniellus	Several Syrphidae	Several Empidae	Ochlerotatus punctor
	Several Cerambycidae	Clytra laeviuscula	Clytra quadripunctata	Chrysanthia geniculata
	Oedemera virescens	Panorpa communis
Parasites:	Ramularia bistortae	Septoria polygonorum	Puccinia bistortae	Chromatomyia horticola Larva (Leaf Miner)
Herbivores:	Lycaena helle Larva	Boloria eunomia	Pachynematus gehrsi Larva	Helicidae

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Bistort

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