General ecology
Plantago lanceolata is a perennial herb of dry meadows, glades, verges, lawns, railway margins and ruderal ground. Its source-supported ecology is broadly associated with open ground and grassland.
Sources: FinBIF / Laji.fi ↗
FinBIF accepted taxon · MX.39679
Plantago lanceolata L.
- Family
- Plantaginaceae
- Genus
- Plantago
- Common names
- FI: heinäratamo · SV: svartkämpar
- 2024 dataset
- Recorded as Plantago lanceolata
Coastal-meadow position
Our 2024 field observations
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 →
Occurrence in our 2024 coastal-meadow study
Recorded in 12 of 120 sampled plots.
- OP · Open Pioneer0 / 30 · 0%
- LS · Lower Shore0 / 30 · 0%
- US · Upper Shore4 / 30 · 13%Cover among 1 plots: median 5% · IQR 5–5%
- TG · Tall Grass8 / 30 · 27%Cover among 3 plots: median 5% · IQR 5–12.5%
Saardu0 / 20 plots
Keemu10 / 30 plots
Koera2 / 30 plots
Kudani0 / 40 plots
FINBIF TAXONOMY
Current verified classification
- kingdomPlantae Haeckel
- phylumTracheophyta Sinnott ex Cavalier-Smith
- classMagnoliopsida Brongn.
- orderLamiales Bromhead
- familyPlantaginaceae Juss.
- genusPlantago L.
- speciesPlantago lanceolata 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.
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 · FIELD EVIDENCE12 of 120 plots
4 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 Plantago lanceolata.
Interpretation boundary: UAV or satellite imagery does not uniquely identify Plantago lanceolata in this study. Follow the complete field-to-EO workflow →