It is also the foodplant of the Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth Hemaris tityus.

Hemaris tityus, the Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth, is one of two similar species of sphingid moth occurring in Britain that closely mimic a bumblebee.

It is a good source of nectar and is the foodplant of Marsh fritillary, whose eggs are laid in groups on the underside of the plant, and Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth Hemaris tityus.

The former is the foodplant of the Marsh Fritillary, Euphydryas aurinia, and the Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth, Hemaris tityus, while the latter is the food plant of the Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Boloria euphrosyne, and the Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary.