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

FinBIF accepted taxon · MX.39284

Galium boreale L.

Family
Rubiaceae
Genus
Galium
Common names
FI: ahomatara · SV: vitmåra
2024 dataset
Recorded as Galium borealium
Open verified FinBIF record ↗

Coastal-meadow position

Our 2024 field observations

SEAINLANDOP 0%Open PioneerOP: 0 / 30 plots · 0% occurrenceLS 0%Lower ShoreLS: 0 / 30 plots · 0% occurrenceUS 37%Upper ShoreUS: 11 / 30 plots · 37% occurrenceTG 83%Tall GrassTG: 25 / 30 plots · 83% 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

Galium boreale is a rhizomatous perennial herb of meadows, dry grasslands, forest margins, dry herb-rich woodland, riverbanks and verges. Its source-supported habitat range crosses grassland, woodland edge and riparian environments.

Sources: FinBIF / Laji.fi

Saardu9 / 20 plots
Keemu13 / 30 plots
Koera14 / 30 plots
Kudani0 / 40 plots

FINBIF TAXONOMY

Current verified classification

  1. kingdomPlantae Haeckel
  2. phylumTracheophyta Sinnott ex Cavalier-Smith
  3. classMagnoliopsida Brongn.
  4. orderGentianales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
  5. familyRubiaceae Juss.
  6. genusGalium L.
  7. speciesGalium boreale 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.

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.

Galium boreale photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Jouko Rikkinen, CC BY-NC 4.0, via FinBIF. CC BY-NC 4.0 · source ↗
Galium boreale 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 EVIDENCE36 of 120 plots

    15 occupied plots have 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 Galium boreale.

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