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Omalotheca norvegica (Norwegian arctic cudweed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Gnaphalium norvegicum, the highland cudweed or Norwegian arctic cudweed, is a European species of plants in the sunflower family. It is widespread across much of Europe from the Mediterranean north to Finland and Iceland. Gnaphalium norvegicum similar to Gnaphalium sylvaticum, heath cudweed. However it is 8 to 30 cm tall, the leaves are 3 veined, and all roughly equal in length. The leaves are also wooly/hairy on both sides. It is a rare plant found in central Scotland and in the northern highlands, found on acidic mountain rocks. It flowers July to August.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Herb
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Mostly Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist

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Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces cichoracearum[4]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
4Jorrit 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.
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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