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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Teucrium scorodonia L. (Wood Sage)
| Notes (MWS) |
A common plant of light shade or scrub around the edges of acid woodland and heathland (pH4-5), but with other ecotypes adapted to calcareous habitats (pH>7). |
Records (and photo sets)
Suggested Literature
General Works
Teucrium scorodonia may also be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Associated with Teucrium scorodonia:
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is foodplant of larva |
Meligethes obscurus - a pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) |
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Bullock, J.A., 1992 |
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leaf (live) |
live leaf is spotted by hypophyllous telium |
Puccinia annularis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) |
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Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes pale yellow or brown spots] |
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leaf |
leaf is grazed by adult |
Longitarsus membranaceus - Wood Sage Flea Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) |
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Kevan D.K., 1967 Bullock, J.A., 1992 |
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leaf |
leaf is grazed by larva |
Longitarsus membranaceus - Wood Sage Flea Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) |
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Kevan D.K., 1967 Bullock, J.A., 1992 |
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stem (dead) |
dead stem is decayed by long stalked apothecium |
Lachnum virgineum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) |
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Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 |
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stem (patchily blackened, dead) |
patchily blackened, dead stem is decayed by sessile or subsessile apothecium |
Calycellina chlorinella - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) |
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Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 |
Teucrium scorodonia may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
References
| Bullock, J.A., 1992 |
Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations |
| Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 |
Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook |
| Kevan D.K., 1967 |
The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae) |
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 |
Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
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