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Rosa spinosissima, Burnet Rose. Thicket-forming rose, of dry, open places: coastal dunes, & inland in chalk & limestone grassland. Supports c. 20 sp of invert, many are rose specialists.
By Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Mathiae Andreae Schmidt. PD via @BioDivLibrary
Clover: Invert associates
Trifolium pratensis, Red Clover: 83 species;
T. repens, White Clover: 72 species; 29 of them Lepidoptera, some of which in thread below. Both clovers are having a late flowering fling this year
*Amédée Masclef - Atlas des plantes de France. 1891
Clematis vitalba, Traveller’s Joy, Associates
Vigorous woody climber, capable of forming a virtual monoculture via readily dispersed seed. Of hedges, walls, trees & scrub, sand dunes, disused quarries, & beside rail tracks.
Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland
Ononis repens, Common Rest-harrow, Associates
A rhizomatous perennial sub-shrub, found in calcareous grasslands, meadows and pasture, scrub, sandy & gravelly verges, & in dunes & shingle on the coast.
Plate 331. By Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora. PD
Origanum vulgare, Wild Marjoram, is almost ubiquitous on N. Yorks verges, in flower June–Sept, & buzzing with pollinators. It also supports nearly 50 other invert species as a larval host, including 28 species of Lepidoptera.
By Amédée Masclef, Atlas des plantes de France. 1891
Menyanthes trifoliata Associates
Semi-aquatic or aquatic perennial, flowering April–June, in shallow water, ponds, fens and bogs. Relatively few associates, but some specific to Bog Bean.
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Lindman Bilder ur Nordens Flora Pl 79
Betula pendula, Birch Associates, No 1/3
To honour Moth Night, here's some of the moths that use Birch as larval host. They support at least 131 spp; of these c.100 use both Silver & Downy birch.
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By Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora
Alliaria petiolata, Garlic Mustard, associates: 69 species of herbivorous inverts, at least 24 of them coleopterans. It is found in woodland, in margins, rides & clearings, shady hedge banks, river-banks, wall bases, verges.
Lindeman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora, Pl 190
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nearly all of them are preyed upon by swifts, swallows and martins. Excellent timing then.
P. ochripes, John Curtis, British Entomology Vol 2 pl 630
Primula veris, Cowslip associates: 12 species (cf 40 for primrose).
Once common in hay meadows, hedgerows, the rides & margins of ancient woods, populations declined mostly in proportion to the loss of grassland habitat 1930–1980.
Schmeil, Lehrbuch der Botanik. Tafel 20