helianthemum nummularium

Rock roses (Helianthemum nummularium) also fit in well and these sprawling plants also like lime.

The larvae feed on Helianthemum nummularium.

The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants, such as Helianthemum nummularium and Galium species.

As far is known Common Rock-rose Helianthemum nummularium seems to be the sole food plant in Britain.

Common Rock-rose Helianthemum nummularium is the favoured foodplant on Calcareous soils.

Common Rock-rose (Helianthemum nummularium)

The British native Helianthemum nummularium, has produced a fabulous range of named varieties in a staggering spectrum of colours, all are indispensable edging plants.

Helianthemum nummularium (Common Rockrose) is a species of rockrose (Cistaceae), native to most of Europe.

Other species found here include rock rose, Helianthemum nummularium, frog orchid, Coeloglossum viride, and pyramidal orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis.

Reported food plants include Potentilla neumanniana, Erodium cicutarium, Teucrium, Artemisia vulgaris, Helianthemum nummularium and Alyssum montanum.

The larvae mainly feed on Helianthemum canum, but have also been recorded feeding on Helianthemum grandifloris, Helianthemum georgicum and Helianthemum nummularium.

On grasslands Bird's-foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus, Common Rock-rose Helianthemum nummularium, Horseshoe Vetch Hippocrepis comosa and Wild Thyme Thymus serpyllum are used.

Various herb species include for dwarf thistle Cirsium acaule, chalk milkwort Polygala calcarea, horseshoe vetch Hippocrepis comosa, common thyme Thymus praecox, squinancywort Asperula cynanchica and common rock-rose Helianthemum nummularium.

Representative flowering plants that occur at Fowlsheugh are: Achillea millefolium, Achillea ptarmica, Carex spicata, Carlina vulgaris, Festuca arundinacea, Salix viminalis, Sambucus nigra, Helianthemum nummularium (common rock-rose) and viola.

There is a rich variety of herbs, including rock-rose, Helianthemum nummularium, glaucous sedge, Carex flacca, spring sedge, C. caryophyllea, and mouse-ear hawkweed, Pilosella officinarum, and a small population of purple milk-vetch, Astragalus danicus, a local rarity on magnesian limestone.

Glaucous sedge, Carex flacca, quaking grass, Briza media, meadow oat-grass, Avenula pratensis, rock-rose, Helianthemum nummularium, and fragrant orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, are common, while sea plantain, Plantago maritima, is locally abundant in the grassland at the edge of limestone spoil heaps.