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Dryas octopetala (white dryas)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Dryas octopetala (common names include mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas, and white dryad) is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is a small prostrate evergreen subshrub forming large colonies. The specific epithet octopetala derives from the Greek octo (eight) and petalon (petal), referring to the eight petals of the flower, an unusual number in the Rosaceae, where five is the normal number. However, flowers with up to 16 petals also occur naturally.
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Infraspecies

Dryas octopetala alaskensis (Alaskan mountain-avens)
Dryas octopetala hookeriana (Hooker's mountain-avens)
Dryas octopetala incisa (Attributes)
Dryas octopetala octopetala (Attributes)
Dryas octopetala oxyodonta (Attributes)
Dryas octopetala punctata (Attributes)
Dryas octopetala var. angustifolia
Dryas octopetala var. asiatica (Attributes)
Dryas octopetala var. hirsuta
Dryas octopetala var. integrifolia
Dryas octopetala var. kamtschatica (Attributes)
Dryas octopetala viscosa (Attributes)
Dryas punctata var. punctata

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Screening - Summer [3]  Dense
Screening - Winter [3]  Porous
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [3]  White
Foliage Color [3]  Dark Green
Fruit Color [3]  White
Bloom Period [3]  Late Spring
Drought Tolerance [3]  Medium
Edible [4]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [3]  Medium
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [3]  4 months
Fruit/Seed Abundance [3]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [3]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [3]  Summer
Growth Form [3]  Single Stem
Growth Period [3]  Spring
Growth Rate [3]  Rapid
Leaf Type [4]  Evergreen
Lifespan [5]  Perennial
Pollinators [4]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Propagation [3]  Bare Root, Container, Cutting, Seed
Root Depth [3]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [3]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [3]  Medium
Seeds Per [3]  453599 / lb (1000016 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [3]  Decumbent
Structure [4]  Shrub
Usage [4]  The plant makes a good ground cover for spring bulbs, though it is not strongly weed suppressive; Slow-growing at first, it then forms a dense mat; Plants should be spaced about 30cm apart each way and they form a carpet, the branches rooting at intervals along the stems;
Vegetative Spread Rate [3]  Rapid
Flower Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Fruit Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Height [4]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
Width [4]  39 inches (1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [3]  USDA Zone: 0 Low Temperature: -65 F° (-53.9 C°) → -60 F° (-51.1 C°)
Light Preference [6]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [6]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [6]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [6]  Mostly Dry
Water Use [3]  Low
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Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Emblem of

Iceland
Northwest Territories

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Consumers

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 5PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 6ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 8Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 10Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 11Making The Forest And Tundra Wildlife Connection
♦ 12Ovibos moschatus, Peter C. Lent, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 302, pp. 1-9 (1988)
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0