Agrostis capillaris

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Status

Native

Nomenclature

Agrostis capillaris L. Euro+Med Plantbase

Species data in Europe

See the complete information sheet in FloraVeg.EU

Habitats

This species has been recorded in the following habitats (only habitats with species frequency > 5% are shown).:
Agrostis-Festuca grassland 63%, Unbroken pastures 61%, Iberian acidophilous birch forests 42%, Genista obtusiramea fields 36%, Cantabrian Nardus stricta swards 33%, Genista florida fields 26%, Juncus acutiflorus meadows 26%, Cytisus striatus and C. commutatus fields 25%, Sub-Atlantic Pteridium aquilinum fields 23%, Southern wet heaths 22%, Atlantic Erica-Ulex heaths 22%, Atlantic hay meadows 22%, Mixed forests on acid soils 20%, Erica arborea heaths 18%, Quercus pyrenaica forest 17%, Atlantic acidophilous Fagus forests 17%, Forest fringes and clearings on acid soils, with fire-loving tall-herb vegetation 17%, Fringes of nutrient-rich ditches and riverbanks, with tall-herb perennial vegetation 16%, Sub-Atlantic semi-dry calcareous grassland 16%, Subnitrophilous disturbed sites with annual pioneer vegetation 16%, Maritime Pinus pinaster subsp. atlantica forests 16%, Atlantic poor soil thickets 15%, Iberian silicicolous Pinus sylvestris forests 14%, Submontane Vaccinium-Calluna heaths 13%, Cytisus multiflorus fields 11%, Sub-Atlantic very dry calcareous grassland 11%, Cytisus scoparius fields 11%, Alpigenic high mountain Empetrum-Vaccinium heaths 10%, Mountain Quercus forests on acid soils 10%, Montane thistle fields of the Cantabrian Mountains 9%, Ulex europaeus thickets 9%, Montane Betula celtiberica forests 9%, Alnus swamp forests not on acid peat 7%, Riverine Fraxinus-Alnus forest, wet at high but not at low water 7%, Atlantic and sub-Atlantic humid pastures 7%, Cordilleran hedgehog-heaths 7%, Disturbed sites with winter annuals 7%, Genista sanabrensis cushion-heaths 6%, Tall-herb communities of humid meadows 6%, Quercus-Fraxinus-Carpinus betulus forest on eutrophic and mesotrophic soils 5%, Submediterranean Erica heaths 5%, Iberoatlantic amphibious swards on peaty soils, dominated by Juncus bulbosus 5%
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