Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Height: 60-120cm
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Tufts, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering July - October (Earliest: 11.7)

Protective Chemicals
Cyanogenic Glycosides	Prunasin
Monoterpenoids	Borneol, Camphene, Carene, Cineole, Citral, Eucalyptol, Isoborneol, Limonene, Linalool, Nerol, Phellandrene, Pinene, Thujone
Sesquiterpenoids	Absinthin, Artemisinin, Bisabolene, Cadinene, Caryophyllene, Cubebene, Elemene, Eudesmol, Germacrene, Lyratol, Muurolol, Spathulenol, Vulgarin
Saponins	Amyrin
Other Triterpenoids	Fernenol, Squalene
Flavonoids	Quercetin, Rutin, Vitexin
Other Phenolics	Caffeic & Chlorogenic Acids, Tannins
Other Acids	Absinthic, Acetic, Eudesmane, Isovalerianic, Malic, Succinic
Sterols	Sitosterol, Stigmasterol
Polyacetylenes	Dehydromatricaria Ester

Biotopes:	Meadows
Flower Visitors:	Several Syrphidae	Calliphora vicina	Lucilia sericata	Hydrophoria lancifer
	Musca autumnalis	Scathophaga stercoraria
Parasites:	Septoria artemisiae	Golovinomyces artemisiae	Puccinia tanaceti	Several Agromyzidae
	Oxyna parietina Larva (Stem Borer)	Epiblema foenella Larva (Stem Borer)	Ostrinia nubilalis Larva (Stem Borer)	Gortyna flavago Larva (Stem Borer)
	Agapanthia villosoviridescens Larva (Stem Borer)
Herbivores:	Polygonia c-album Larva	Vanessa cardui	Several Geometridae	Several Noctuidae
	Several Tortricidae	Coleophora trochilella Larva	Udea lutealis Larva	Neocrepidodera ferruginea
	Phyllobius vespertinus	Phyllobius virideaeris	Cepaea
Sapivores:	Several Aphididae	Many Miridae	Brachycarenus tigrinus	Enoplops scapha
	Carpocoris purpureipennis	Eupteryx atropunctata
Florivores:	Several Geometridae	Cnephasia pasiuana	Phytocoris varipes
Granivores:	Serinus serinus	Several Rhopalidae	Adelphocoris lineolatus Nymph	Liocoris tripustulatus

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Mugwort

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

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