Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Height: 10-40cm
Never Mycorrhizal, Hemi-parasite
Annual, Lacks Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering July - October (Earliest: 3.7)

Protective Chemicals
Iridoids	Aucubin
Phenolics	Caffeic Acid, Tannins

Biotopes:	Heath and Moorland
Flower Visitors:	Atelestus dissonans
Herbivores:	Altica palustris	Stenoptilia aridus Larva
Sapivores:	Aphis fabae	Hyperomyzus rhinanthi

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Eyebright

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

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