The leaves provide food for some animals, including Lepidoptera such as the case-bearer moth Coleophora anatipennella.
-- Pierce & Metcalfe's supposed redescription of albidella as anatipennella is not mentioned in the Savela list --> Pierce & Metcalfe, 1935 (non Hübner, 1796: preoccupied)
Coleophora | Coleophora sibiricella | Coleophora anatipennella | Coleophora pulmonariella | Coleophora phlomidis | Coleophora phlomidella | Coleophora trifolii | Coleophora tricolor | Coleophora ostryae | Coleophora lycii | Coleophora intermediella | Coleophora haywardi | Coleophora gallivora | Coleophora bifrondella |