Festuca ovina

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Habitus and growth type

  • Plant height [m]: 0.36
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  • Life span: Perennial
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  • Life form: Hemicryptophyte
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  • Spinescence: not spinescent
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Leaf

  • Specific leaf area [mm2/mg]: 14.59
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Flower

  • Flowering period: April-June
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Fruit, seed and dispersal

  • Seed mass [mg]: 0.6
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  • Dispersal mode: Local non-specific dispersal, Anthropochory
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  • Dispersal distance class: 2, 7
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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 reaction relationship: Acidic
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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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  • Moisture indicator value: 4.1
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  • Nutrient indicator value: 2.2
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  • Salinity indicator value: 0
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  • Disturbance indicator values

  • Disturbance frequency: 0.57
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  • Disturbance frequency (herb layer): 1.61
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  • Disturbance severity: 0.52
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  • Disturbance severity (herb layer): 0.34
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  • Mowing frequency: 0.29
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  • Grazing pressure: 0.27
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  • Soil disturbance: 0.2
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Habitat and sociology

  • EUNIS habitat

  • Constant species of EUNIS habitats: N18 Atlantic and Baltic coastal Empetrum heath, N19 Atlantic coastal Calluna and Ulex heath, R12 Cryptogam- and annual-dominated vegetation on siliceous rock outcrops, R13 Cryptogam- and annual-dominated vegetation on calcareous and ultramafic rock outcrops, R18 Perennial rocky calcareous grassland of subatlantic-submediterranean Europe, 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, R32 Mediterranean short moist grassland of lowlands, R42 Boreal and Arctic acidophilous alpine grassland, S11 Shrub tundra, S12 Moss and lichen tundra, S31 Lowland to montane temperate and submediterranean Juniperus scrub, S42 Dry heath, S52 Submediterranean pseudomaquis, S73 Western Mediterranean mountain hedgehog-heath, T1B Acidophilous Quercus forest, T1C Temperate and boreal mountain Betula and Populus tremula forest on mineral soils, T35 Temperate continental Pinus sylvestris forest, T3G Pinus sylvestris light taiga, T3H Larix light taiga, U21 Boreal and Arctic siliceous scree and block field, U25 Boreal and Arctic base-rich scree and block field, U33 Temperate, lowland to montane siliceous inland cliff, U35 Boreal and Arctic base-rich inland cliff, U3A Temperate ultramafic inland cliff, U52 Polar desert
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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: Grassland (non-alpine, non-saline), Alpine-subalpine and arctic grassland, Heathland, Oromediterranean scrub, Scrub, Forest, Sparsely vegetated (incl. rock and scree)
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Distribution

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