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Diapensia lapponica (pincushion plant)

Synonyms: Diapensia japonica; Diapensia lapponica lapponica; Diapensia lapponica var. genuina; Diapensia lapponica var. lapponica; Diapensia obtusifolia

Wikipedia Abstract

Diapensia lapponica (pincushion plant) is a plant in the family Diapensiaceae, the only circumpolar species in the genus Diapensia, the others being mainly in the Himalaya and on mountains in southwestern China (the evolutionary heartland). This species likely became Circumboreal-circumpolar [Arctic–alpine] after it jumped to arctic habitat from North China and Russia. The most likely candidate for ancestor is a white-flowered D. purpurea (Day R.T. 2003. Diapensia on Cheju Island, South Korea and Musings on Origins. Sarracenia 11(3):29-31.) The plants grow on exposed rocky ridges that are kept free from snow by high winds.Diapensia is extremely slow and low-growing and cannot compete with plants that over top it. The plant is very sensitive to higher temperatures (global warming a lethal p
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Infraspecies

Diapensia lapponica var. obovata

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [1]  White-Gray
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [3]  2.362 inches (.06 m)
Light Preference [4]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [4]  Mostly Acid
Soil Fertility [4]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Mostly Dry

Protected Areas

Predators

Agriades glandon (Arctic Blue)[5]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Limnophyes ninae[6]
Thricops hirtulus[6]
Thricops nigritellus[6]
Thricops rostratus[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold 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.
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3PLANTATT - 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)
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 6Jorrit 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