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Lysimachia europaea (arctic starflower)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [1]  White
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [4]  Herb
Height [2]  10 inches (0.25 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [3]  Mostly Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
View Plants For A Future Record : Lysimachia europaea

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Arctorthezia cataphracta (alpine ensign scale)[5]
Lemmus lemmus (Norway lemming)[6]
Microtus oeconomus (tundra vole)[7]
Scathophaga stercoraria (Common Yellow Dung Fly)[8]

Providers

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Urocystis trientalis (Chickweed Wintergreen Smut)[9]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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.
2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
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)
4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
6"Shedding new light on the diet of Norwegian lemmings: DNA metabarcoding of stomach content", Eeva M. Soininen, Lucie Zinger, Ludovic Gielly, Eva Bellemain, Kari Anne Bråthen, Christian Brochmann, Laura S. Epp, Galina Gussarova, Kristian Hassel, John-André Henden, Siw T. Killengreen, Teppo Rämä, Hans K. Stenøien, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Rolf A. Ims, Polar Biology July 2013, Volume 36, Issue 7, pp 1069-1076
7Analysing diet of small herbivores: the efficiency of DNA barcoding coupled with high-throughput pyrosequencing for deciphering the composition of complex plant mixtures, Eeva M Soininen, Alice Valentini, Eric Coissac, Christian Miquel, Ludovic Gielly, Christian Brochmann, Anne K Brysting, Jørn H Sønstebø, Rolf A Ims, Nigel G Yoccoz and Pierre Taberlet, Frontiers in Zoology 2009, 6:16
8Ecology of Commanster
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.
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