Plant 
Flower |
Leaf 
Fruit |
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Plant
Flower |
Leaf
Fruit |
Height: 15-60cm
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Annual, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering June - September
(Earliest: 16.5)
| Protective Chemicals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sesquiterpenoids | Cichorioside, Eudesmane, Germacrane, Guaiane, Hypochoeroside | ||||
| Aldehydes | Mucondialdehyde | ||||
| Biotopes: |
Meadows | |||
| Flower Visitors: |
Several Apidae |
Several Nymphalidae |
Pieris rapae |
Siphona geniculata |
Siphona pauciseta |
Scaeva pyrastri |
Syritta pipiens |
Physocephala rufipes | |
Rhamphomyia micropyga | ||||
| Seed Dispersal: | Wind | |||
| Parasites: |
Puccinia hieracii |
Several Agromyzidae |
Ensina sonchi Larva (Flower Gall) | |
| Herbivores: |
Several Tortricidae |
Cucullia umbratica Larva | ||
| Sapivores: |
Closterotomus norwegicus |
Plagiognathus arbustorum |
Uroleucon cichorii |
Uroleucon hypochoeridis |
| Florivores: |
Cnephasia pasiuana |
Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora:
Common Catsear
Pictures © 2003, 2005 J.K. Lindsey
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