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

FinBIF accepted taxon · MX.40438

Festuca rubra L.

Family
Poaceae
Genus
Festuca
Common names
FI: punanata · SV: rödsvingel
2024 dataset
Recorded as Festuca rubra
Open verified FinBIF record ↗

Coastal-meadow position

Our 2024 field observations

SEAINLANDOP 0%Open PioneerOP: 0 / 30 plots · 0% occurrenceLS 30%Lower ShoreLS: 9 / 30 plots · 30% occurrenceUS 100%Upper ShoreUS: 30 / 30 plots · 100% occurrenceTG 80%Tall GrassTG: 24 / 30 plots · 80% 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

Festuca rubra is a loosely tufted perennial grass of meadows, sown grasslands, shores, verges and waste ground. FinBIF describes a native range across the temperate Northern Hemisphere and established introductions in the Southern Hemisphere.

Sources: FinBIF / Laji.fi

OUR FIELD EVIDENCE

Occurrence in our 2024 coastal-meadow study

Recorded in 63 of 120 sampled plots.

Saardu7 / 20 plots
Keemu20 / 30 plots
Koera21 / 30 plots
Kudani15 / 40 plots

FINBIF TAXONOMY

Current verified classification

  1. kingdomPlantae Haeckel
  2. phylumTracheophyta Sinnott ex Cavalier-Smith
  3. classMagnoliopsida Brongn.
  4. orderPoales Small
  5. familyPoaceae Barnhart
  6. genusFestuca L.
  7. speciesFestuca rubra L.

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.

OUR 2024 MEASUREMENTS

Chlorophyll Content Index

1

Range 0.81.7 · average 1.01 · n = 69

OUR 2024 MEASUREMENTS

Leaf area

0.358 cm²

Range 0.0871.403 · average 0.4 · n = 39

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.

Festuca rubra photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Jouko Rikkinen, CC BY-NC 4.0, via FinBIF. CC BY-NC 4.0 · source ↗
Festuca rubra 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 EVIDENCE63 of 120 plots

    56 occupied plots have a positive numeric cover value available for occupied-plot cover summaries.

  2. 2 · TRAIT ELIGIBILITYCCI n = 69 · leaf area n = 39

    Both traits passed the documented minimum of five measurements. Their species medians can be weighted by relative cover when constructing plot-level 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 Festuca rubra.

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