General ecology
Potentilla erecta is a perennial herb of meadows, verges, glades and mesic woodland, as well as swamp woodland and rich fens. Its source-supported range crosses grassland, forest and wetland habitats.
Sources: FinBIF / Laji.fi ↗
FinBIF accepted taxon · MX.38863
Potentilla erecta (L.) Raeusch.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Potentilla
- Common names
- FI: rätvänä · SV: blodrot
- 2024 dataset
- Recorded as Potentilla erectus
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 14 of 120 sampled plots.
- OP · Open Pioneer0 / 30 · 0%
- LS · Lower Shore0 / 30 · 0%
- US · Upper Shore5 / 30 · 17%
- TG · Tall Grass9 / 30 · 30%Cover among 2 plots: median 10% · IQR 7.5–12.5%
Saardu1 / 20 plots
Keemu9 / 30 plots
Koera4 / 30 plots
Kudani0 / 40 plots
FINBIF TAXONOMY
Current verified classification
- kingdomPlantae Haeckel
- phylumTracheophyta Sinnott ex Cavalier-Smith
- classMagnoliopsida Brongn.
- orderRosales Bercht. & J. Presl
- familyRosaceae Juss.
- genusPotentilla L.
- speciesPotentilla erecta (L.) Raeusch.
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 EVIDENCE14 of 120 plots
2 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 Potentilla erecta.
Interpretation boundary: UAV or satellite imagery does not uniquely identify Potentilla erecta in this study. Follow the complete field-to-EO workflow →