Larval host-plants of Elephant hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) LC

Host-plant
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Wild cabbage
Brassica oleracea
this species
Hedge bindweed
Calystegia sepium
this species
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Chamaenerion angustifolium
this species
Enchanter's nightshade
Circaea lutetiana
this species
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Clarkia amoena
this species
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Epilobium
any Epilobium species
Great willowherb
Epilobium hirsutum
this species
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Fuchsia
any Fuchsia species
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Galium
any Galium species
Orange balsam
Impatiens capensis
this species
Himmalayan balsam
Impatiens glandulifera
this species
Purple loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
this species
Bogbean
Menyanthes trifoliata
this species
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Nicotiana
any Nicotiana species
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Oenothera biennis
this species
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Parthenocissus
any Parthenocissus species
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Rosa
any Rosa species
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Vitis vinifera
this species

Host-plant data: Cook et al. (2025), Traits data for the butterflies and macro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland, 2024, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology / Butterfly Conservation; and Padovani et al. (2020), Database of Insects and their Food Plants (DBIF), UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (both Open Government Licence). Contains data supplied by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.