Calluna vulgaris

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Habitus and growth type

  • Plant height [m]: 0.74
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  • Life span: Perennial
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  • Life form: Chamaephyte, Dwarf shrub
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  • Spinescence: not spinescent
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Leaf

  • Leaf type (woody plants only): Scale-like, Sclerophyllous
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  • Leaf phenology (woody plants only): Evergreen
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  • Specific leaf area [mm2/mg]: 9.71
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Flower

  • Flowering period: July-November
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Fruit, seed and dispersal

  • Seed mass [mg]: 0.03
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  • Dispersal mode: Anemochory
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  • Dispersal distance class: 5
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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: Dystrophic
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  • Salinity relationship: Non-saline
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  • Ellenberg-type indicator values

  • Light indicator value: 7.7
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  • Temperature indicator value: 4.6
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  • Moisture indicator value: 5.6
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  • Reaction indicator value: 1.5
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  • Nutrient indicator value: 1.4
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  • Salinity indicator value: 0
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  • Disturbance indicator values

  • Disturbance frequency: 0.46
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  • Disturbance frequency (herb layer): 1.43
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  • Disturbance severity: 0.49
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  • Disturbance severity (herb layer): 0.24
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  • Mowing frequency: 0.1
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  • Grazing pressure: 0.25
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  • Soil disturbance: 0.16
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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, N1F Baltic coniferous coastal dune forest, Q11 Raised bog, Q12 Blanket bog, Q21 Oceanic valley mire, Q22 Poor fen, R1G Iberian oromediterranean siliceous dry grassland, R1M Lowland to montane, dry to mesic grassland usually dominated by Nardus stricta, R1Q Inland sanddrift and dune with siliceous grassland, R37 Temperate and boreal moist or wet oligotrophic grassland, R52 Forest fringe of acidic nutrient-poor soils, R54 Pteridium aquilinum vegetation, S12 Moss and lichen tundra, S22 Alpine and subalpine ericoid heath, S31 Lowland to montane temperate and submediterranean Juniperus scrub, S33 Lowland to montane temperate and submediterranean genistoid scrub, S41 Wet heath, S42 Dry heath, S43 Macaronesian heath, S62 Western acidophilous garrigue, T16 Broadleaved mire forest on acid peat, T1B Acidophilous Quercus forest, T1C Temperate and boreal mountain Betula and Populus tremula forest on mineral soils, T29 Broadleaved evergreen plantation of non site-native trees, T34 Temperate subalpine Larix, Pinus cembra and Pinus uncinata forest, T35 Temperate continental Pinus sylvestris forest, T37 Mediterranean montane Pinus sylvestris-Pinus nigra forest, T3F Dark taiga, T3G Pinus sylvestris light taiga, T3J Pinus and Larix mire forest, T3K Picea mire forest, T3M Coniferous plantation of non site-native trees, U33 Temperate, lowland to montane siliceous inland cliff
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  • Broad habitat

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

  • Continentality amplitude: 5
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  • Country-based map: Euro+Med Plantbase

No subordinate taxa were found for this item.

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