Luzula multiflora
Ecology
An early-flowering tufted but shortly rhizomatous herb of various grassy habitats, preferring more acidic soils and more shaded places than L. campestris. It occurs on heaths and moors and in the drier parts of bogs, in meadows and other grassy places, and in open woods and wood margins. 0-1020 m (Breadalbanes, Mid Perth).
Status
Trends
Because of past and present confusion with L. campestris, it is difficult to assess the validity of the apparent decline of this species in C. &. E. England. Subsp. multiflora and subsp. congesta are difficult to distinguish and are unevenly recorded; they are not mapped here.
World Distribution
Circumpolar Wide-boreal element; widely naturalised outside its native range.
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Broad Habitats
Light (Ellenberg): 7
Moisture (Ellenberg): 6
Reaction (Ellenberg): 3
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 3
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.5
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 14.3
Annual Precipitation (mm): 1148
Height (cm): 50
Perennation - primary
Life Form - primary
Woodiness
Clonality - primary
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 2451
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 834
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 7
Atlas Change Index: 0.28
Weighted Changed Factor: -8
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
JNCC Designations
Atlas text references
Atlas (324d)
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1986. Atlas of north European vascular plants north of the Tropic of Cancer. 3 vols.
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1996. Luzula multiflora subsp. hibernica, a new tetraploid taxon of Luzula sect. Luzula (Juncaceae) from Ireland. Watsonia. 21:89-97.