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

FinBIF accepted taxon · MX.40503

Sesleria uliginosa Opiz

Family
Poaceae
Genus
Sesleria
Common names
FI: sinilupikka · SV: älväxing
2024 dataset
Recorded as Sesleria caerulea
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 50%Upper ShoreUS: 15 / 30 plots · 50% occurrenceTG 77%Tall GrassTG: 23 / 30 plots · 77% 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

Sesleria uliginosa is a loosely tufted perennial grass of eutrophic fens, fen meadows and mesic to moist nutrient-rich meadows. FinBIF characterizes it as calcicolous, supporting an affinity for base-rich grassland and fen habitats.

Sources: FinBIF / Laji.fi

Saardu4 / 20 plots
Keemu19 / 30 plots
Koera15 / 30 plots
Kudani0 / 40 plots

FINBIF TAXONOMY

Current verified classification

  1. kingdomPlantae Haeckel
  2. phylumTracheophyta Sinnott ex Cavalier-Smith
  3. classMagnoliopsida Brongn.
  4. orderPoales Small
  5. familyPoaceae Barnhart
  6. genusSesleria Scop.
  7. speciesSesleria uliginosa Opiz

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.

OUR 2024 MEASUREMENTS

Chlorophyll Content Index

1.1

Range 0.93.2 · average 1.3 · n = 44

OUR 2024 MEASUREMENTS

Leaf area

1.227 cm²

Range 0.2174.331 · average 1.41 · n = 19

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.

Sesleria uliginosa photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Jouko Rikkinen, CC BY-NC 4.0, via FinBIF. CC BY-NC 4.0 · source ↗
Sesleria uliginosa 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 EVIDENCE38 of 120 plots

    38 occupied plots have a positive numeric cover value available for occupied-plot cover summaries.

  2. 2 · TRAIT ELIGIBILITYCCI n = 44 · leaf area n = 19

    Both traits passed the documented minimum of five measurements. Their species medians can be weighted by relative cover when constructing plot-level 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 Sesleria uliginosa.

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