Eleocharis palustris photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Jouko Rikkinen, CC BY-NC 4.0, via FinBIF. Licence ↗

FinBIF accepted taxon · MX.40269

Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Eleocharis
Common names
FI: rantaluikka · SV: knappsäv
2024 dataset
Recorded as Eleocharis palustris
Open verified FinBIF record ↗

Coastal-meadow position

Our 2024 field observations

SEAINLANDOP 0%Open PioneerOP: 0 / 30 plots · 0% occurrenceLS 3%Lower ShoreLS: 1 / 30 plots · 3% occurrenceUS 0%Upper ShoreUS: 0 / 30 plots · 0% occurrenceTG 0%Tall GrassTG: 0 / 30 plots · 0% occurrencecommunity bands form a gradient · boundaries are not rigid

Occurrence uses the 30 sampled plots in each community. Community boundaries are not rigid; these are study observations, not a complete Estonian distribution. Study data and methods →

INDEPENDENT BOTANICAL EVIDENCE

General ecology

Eleocharis palustris is a low perennial wetland plant, especially of shallow water on open lake shores, but also of wet meadows, ditches, pools and mires. FinBIF associates it with relatively firm clay-sand or mineral shore substrates.

Sources: FinBIF / Laji.fi

Saardu1 / 20 plots
Keemu0 / 30 plots
Koera0 / 30 plots
Kudani0 / 40 plots

FINBIF TAXONOMY

Current verified classification

  1. kingdomPlantae Haeckel
  2. phylumTracheophyta Sinnott ex Cavalier-Smith
  3. classMagnoliopsida Brongn.
  4. orderPoales Small
  5. familyCyperaceae Juss.
  6. genusEleocharis R. Br.
  7. speciesEleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.

OUR MEASURED TRAITS

Pool-wise CCI and leaf area

Trait values are pooled measurements collected during the 2024 coastal-meadow field campaign and are study observations, not fixed species constants. Only summaries with at least five measurements are shown.

No validated pool-wise trait summary

This species did not meet the ≥5-measurement rule in the supplied CCI or leaf-area summary tables.

Licensed FinBIF photographs

Additional photographs

These views complement the primary photograph above without repeating it. Use them alongside a regional identification key; photographs alone are not sufficient for a field identification.

Eleocharis palustris photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Jouko Rikkinen, CC BY-NC 4.0, via FinBIF. CC BY-NC 4.0 · source ↗
Eleocharis palustris photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Jouko Rikkinen, CC BY-NC 4.0, via FinBIF. CC BY-NC 4.0 · source ↗

FIELD DATA → EARTH OBSERVATION

How this taxon enters the analysis

These steps show what this record contributes to the 2024 study. They do not turn the taxon name into a remotely sensed measurement.

  1. 1 · FIELD EVIDENCE1 of 120 plots

    1 occupied plot has a positive numeric cover value available for occupied-plot cover summaries.

  2. 2 · TRAIT ELIGIBILITYNo eligible CCI or leaf-area summary

    Neither trait met the documented minimum of five measurements for this taxon, so it contributes no species median to the CCI or leaf-area community-weighted means.

  3. 3 · MODEL LINKPlot response, not species detection

    Plot-level ecological responses are paired with UAV predictors. A fitted model can estimate variation in those responses across the landscape; this record does not train a classifier for Eleocharis palustris.

Interpretation boundary: UAV or satellite imagery does not uniquely identify Eleocharis palustris in this study. Follow the complete field-to-EO workflow →