Agrostis capillaris

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Habitus and growth type

  • Plant height [m]: 0.37
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  • Life span: Perennial
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  • Life form: Hemicryptophyte
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Leaf

  • Specific leaf area [mm2/mg]: 29.95
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Flower

  • Flowering period: May-August
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Fruit, seed and dispersal

  • Seed mass [mg]: 0.07
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  • Dispersal mode: Local non-specific dispersal
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  • Dispersal distance class: 2
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Trophic mode

  • Parasitism and mycoheterotrophy: autotroph
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  • Carnivory: non-carnivorous
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  • Symbiotic nitrogen fixation: no nitrogen-fixing symbionts
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Taxon origin

  • Origin in Europe: native
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Ecology

  • Environmental relationships

  • Substrate humidity relationship: Mesic
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  • Substrate reaction relationship: Acidic
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  • Nutrient relationship: Mesotrophic
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  • Salinity relationship: Non-saline
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  • Ellenberg-type indicator values

  • Light indicator value: 7.2
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  • Temperature indicator value: 4.9
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  • Moisture indicator value: 4.9
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  • Reaction indicator value: 3.5
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  • Nutrient indicator value: 3.3
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  • Salinity indicator value: 0
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  • Disturbance indicator values

  • Disturbance frequency: 0.86
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  • Disturbance frequency (herb layer): 1.8
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  • Disturbance severity: 0.52
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  • Disturbance severity (herb layer): 0.43
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  • Mowing frequency: 0.58
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  • Grazing pressure: 0.3
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  • Soil disturbance: 0.29
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Habitat and sociology

  • Syntaxon

  • EUNIS habitat

  • Constant species of EUNIS habitats: N18 Atlantic and Baltic coastal Empetrum heath, N19 Atlantic coastal Calluna and Ulex heath, N1D Atlantic and Baltic broad-leaved coastal dune forest, R1A Semi-dry perennial calcareous grassland (meadow steppe), R1M Lowland to montane, dry to mesic grassland usually dominated by Nardus stricta, R1P Oceanic to subcontinental inland sand grassland on dry acid and neutral soils, R1Q Inland sanddrift and dune with siliceous grassland, R1S Heavy-metal grassland in Western and Central Europe, R21 Mesic permanent pasture of lowlands and mountains, R22 Low and medium altitude hay meadow, R23 Mountain hay meadow, R33 Mediterranean short moist grassland of mountains, R37 Temperate and boreal moist or wet oligotrophic grassland, R42 Boreal and Arctic acidophilous alpine grassland, R51 Thermophilous forest fringe of base-rich soils, R52 Forest fringe of acidic nutrient-poor soils, R54 Pteridium aquilinum vegetation, R57 Herbaceous forest clearing vegetation, S23 Alpine and subalpine Juniperus scrub, S31 Lowland to montane temperate and submediterranean Juniperus scrub, S32 Temperate Rubus scrub, S33 Lowland to montane temperate and submediterranean genistoid scrub, S34 Balkan-Anatolian submontane genistoid scrub, S38 Temperate forest clearing scrub, S42 Dry heath, T1B Acidophilous Quercus forest, T1C Temperate and boreal mountain Betula and Populus tremula forest on mineral soils, T35 Temperate continental Pinus sylvestris forest, U23 Temperate, lowland to montane siliceous scree
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  • Dominant species of EUNIS habitats: R1S Heavy-metal grassland in Western and Central Europe
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  • Broad habitat

  • Occurrence in broad habitats: Wetland, Grassland (non-alpine, non-saline), Alpine-subalpine and arctic grassland, Heathland, Scrub, Forest, Sparsely vegetated (incl. rock and scree), Synanthropic
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Distribution

  • Continentality amplitude: 6
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  • Country-based map: Euro+Med Plantbase
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