Larval host-plants of Small copper (Lycaena phlaeas) LC

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Ragwort
Jacobaea vulgaris
this species
Common sorrel
Rumex acetosa
this species
Sheep's sorrel
Rumex acetosella
this species
Broadleaved dock
Rumex obtusifolius
this species
Fiddledock
Rumex pulcher
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.