BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Lepidium draba ssp. draba (L.) Desv. (a hoary cress)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #macrophotos
Lepidium draba ssp. draba Plant 10 May 1998 Berks England 9

Suggested Literature

Lepidium draba ssp. draba may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
BRASSICACEAE
(cabbages, cresses etc - formerly Cruciferae)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Lepidium draba ssp. draba:

(live) live is parasitised by Erysiphe cruciferarum - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Foreign Ing, B., 1990
is foodplant of larva Ceutorhynchus assimilis - Cabbage Seed Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
is foodplant of larva Ceutorhynchus turbatus - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf-mine (end of) leaf-mine (end of) may house puparium Chromatomyia horticola - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf is mined by larva Chromatomyia horticola - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine linear, whitish, both upper and lower surface]

Lepidium draba ssp. draba may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
BRASSICACEAE
(cabbages, cresses etc - formerly Cruciferae)
Lepidium
(pepperworts)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae