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

FinBIF accepted taxon · MX.39126

Linum catharticum L.

Family
Linaceae
Genus
Linum
Common names
FI: ahopellava · SV: vildlin
2024 dataset
Recorded as Linum catharticum
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 3%Upper ShoreUS: 1 / 30 plots · 3% 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

Linum catharticum is an annual or biennial herb of calcareous moist meadows, wooded and seashore meadows, dry pasture, rocky ground, gravel pits and limestone quarries. Its calciphilous ecology spans both moist and dry open habitats.

Sources: FinBIF / Laji.fi

Saardu0 / 20 plots
Keemu1 / 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. orderMalpighiales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
  5. familyLinaceae DC. ex Perleb
  6. genusLinum L.
  7. speciesLinum catharticum 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.

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

    Occurrence is verified, but no positive numeric cover value is available for an occupied-plot cover summary.

  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 Linum catharticum.

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