Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Height: 10-50cm
Rarely Arbuscular Mycorrhizal, Extrafloral Nectaries
Annual, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering June - August (Earliest: 22.5)

Biotopes:	Heath and Moorland	Spruce Forest Edge	Peat Bogs and Mires
Flower Visitors:	Bombus pascuorum
Seed Dispersal:	Formicidae
Parasites:	Puccinia nemoralis
Herbivores:	Melitaea athalia Larva	Amphipyra tragopoginis Larva	Anania fuscalis Larva	Cnephasia asseclana
	Athalia circularis Larva
Sapivores:	Adelphocoris lineolatus	Lygocoris pabulinus	Mecomma ambulans
Granivores:	Adelphocoris lineolatus Nymph	Grypocoris sexguttatus

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Common Cow-wheat

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

Caution

Back to Ecology of Commanster