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Scleranthus perennis (perennial knawel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Scleranthus perennis, the perennial knawel, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the carnation family. It grows on sandy, dry, acidic soils. It can grow up to 15 cm high and has white flowers of 2–5 mm. The plant used to be economically significant as the major host plant of the Polish cochineal.
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Infraspecies

Scleranthus perennis atlanticus
Scleranthus perennis burnatii
Scleranthus perennis dichotomus
Scleranthus perennis marginatus
Scleranthus perennis perennis (Perennial knawel)
Scleranthus perennis polycnemoides
Scleranthus perennis prostratus
Scleranthus perennis vulcanicus

Attributes

Height [1]  8 inches (.2 m)
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Mostly Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Mostly Dry

Protected Areas

Predators

Porphyrophora polonica (Polish cochineal)[4]
Scythris cicadella[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1PLANTATT - 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)
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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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