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.
US · Upper Shore11 / 30 · 37%Cover among 1 plots: median 5% · IQR 5–5%
TG · Tall Grass25 / 30 · 83%Cover among 14 plots: median 5% · IQR 5–5%
Saardu9 / 20 plots
Keemu13 / 30 plots
Koera14 / 30 plots
Kudani0 / 40 plots
FINBIF TAXONOMY
Current verified classification
kingdomPlantae Haeckel
phylumTracheophyta Sinnott ex Cavalier-Smith
classMagnoliopsida Brongn.
orderGentianales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
familyRubiaceae Juss.
genusGalium L.
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.
These steps show what this record contributes to the 2024 study. They do not turn the taxon name into a remotely sensed measurement.
1 · FIELD EVIDENCE36 of 120 plots
15 occupied plots have a positive numeric cover value available for occupied-plot cover summaries.
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 · 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.