Linaria purpurea (L.) Mill.
(Purple Toadflax)

Interactions where Linaria purpurea is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

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Affected Part Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season Summary
leaf (live) live leaf is grazed by adult Captivity Chrysolina sanguinolenta Toadflax Leaf Beetle Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Chrysolina sanguinolenta/Chrysolina sanguinolentatoadflax leaf beetleadult Foodplant / open feeder /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Plantaginaceae/Linaria purpurea/Linaria purpureapurple toadflaxliveleaf Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced(3-10)adult grazes on live leaf
leaf (live) live leaf is grazed by larva Captivity Chrysolina sanguinolenta Toadflax Leaf Beetle Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Chrysolina sanguinolenta/Chrysolina sanguinolentatoadflax leaf beetlelarva Foodplant / open feeder /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Plantaginaceae/Linaria purpurea/Linaria purpureapurple toadflaxliveleaf Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally inducedlarva grazes on live leaf

Author & YearTitleSource
Cox, M.L., 2007Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland336pp, Pisces Publications

Linaria purpurea (Purple Toadflax) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesLinaria purpurea (Purple Toadflax)
GenusLinaria (Bot.) (toadflaxes)
FamilyPLANTAGINACEAE (toadflaxes, speedwells, foxgloves and plantains)
OrderLAMIALES (dead-nettles, eye-brights, foxgloves and speedwells)
SubclassEU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ClassMAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Linaria purpurea (Purple Toadflax)

Linaria purpurea (Purple Toadflax) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Linaria purpurea (Purple Toadflax):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 20 images of Linaria purpurea (Purple Toadflax)
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