Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Poaceae > Molinia > Molinia arundinacea

Molinia arundinacea (purple moorgrass)

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Attributes

Height [1]  4.264 feet (1.3 m)
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Grass
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Mostly Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Damp

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Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Melanostoma scalare[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Claviceps purpurea (Ergot)[5]
Puccinia moliniae[5]
Puccinia nemoralis[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
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Ecology of Commanster
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 8Chodkiewicz A. and Stypiński P., Diet preferences of Koniks horses in disadvantaged areas: a case study from the Biebrza National Park Grassland Science in Europe, Vol. 16 (2011) pp. 326-328
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