Larval host-plants of Common blue (Polyommatus icarus) LC

Host-plant
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Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
this species
Birdsfoot trefoil
Lotus corniculatus
this species
Greater bird's-foot trefoil
Lotus pedunculatus
this species
Black medick
Medicago lupulina
this species
Common rest-harrow
Ononis repens
this species
Bird's foot
Ornithopus perpusillus
this species
Burnet saxifrage
Pimpinella saxifraga
this species
Lesser trefoil
Trifolium dubium
this species
Red clover
Trifolium pratense
this species
White clover
Trifolium repens
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.