Wingspan around 12mm. This small brownish tortrix resembles several other species, and care is needed with identification.

Around water, especially where Water-plantain is found.

Adult moths are on the wing between June and August, and fly at sunset, but also come later to light.

The larvae feed on Water-plantain where they feed internally in the flower stems, consuming the pith.

This species is distributed over southern parts of England, ranging northwards to Lancashire. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as Nationally Scarce B.

Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland. The Shenton specimen of 8th August 2014 is the first record of this species in VC55. L&R Moth Group status = D (rare or rarely recorded).