Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Height: 60-120cm
Annual, Tufts
Hermaphrodite, Flowering July - October (Earliest: 27.6)

Habitat:	Meadows	Hedge Rows
Pollination:	Many Apidae	Several Vespidae	Several Crabronidae	Many Ichneumonidae
	Several Braconidae	Several Tenthredinidae	Exallonyx ligatus	Arge ochropus
	Platygaster demades	Torymus bedeguaris	Pediobius saulius	Figites anthomyiarum
	Melanips alienus	Several Lycaenidae	Coenonympha pamphilus	Several Noctuidae
	Several Crambidae	Several Tortricidae	Isturgia limbaria	Argyresthia goedartella
	Yponomeuta padella	Plutella xylostella	Gillmeria ochrodactyla	Gillmeria pallidactyla
	Bryotropha terrella	Scrobipalpa acuminatella	Anthophila fabriciana	Coleophora striatipennella
	Many Syrphidae	Several Muscidae	Several Anthomyiidae	Several Tachinidae
	Several Empidae	Several Calliphoridae	Sarcophaga carnaria	Sepsis punctum
	Sepsis violacea	Ensina sonchi	Sphenella marginata	Meromyza saltatrix
	Palloptera ustulata	Leptosciarella pilosa	Dilophus febrilis	Platypalpus cursitans
	Opomyza germinationis	Scathophaga stercoraria	Scathophaga suilla	Sylvicola punctatus
	Sciara hemerobioides	Oedemera virescens	Stenurella melanura	Stictoleptura rubra
	Aplocnemus nigricornis	Meligethes aeneus	Meligethes viridescens	Anthocomus rufus
	Anthrenus fuscus	Anthrenus museorum	Ischnopterapion virens	Mordella aculeata
	Panorpa vulgaris
Parasites:	Septoria tanaceti
Herbivores:	Coleophora trochilella Larva	Several Tortricidae Larvae	Gillmeria ochrodactyla Larva	Cassida stigmatica
	Forficula auricularia	Helicidae
Sapivores:	Several Miridae	Macrosiphoniella persequens	Macrosiphoniella tanacetaria
Florivores:	Eupithecia icterata
Granivores:	Megalocoleus tanaceti
Nests:	Acrocephalus palustris

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Tansy

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

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