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Calamagrostis arenaria (European beachgrass)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Calamagrostis arenaria arenaria
Calamagrostis arenaria australis

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Calamagrostis arenaria

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Screening - Summer [2]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [2]  Moderate
Bloom Period [2]  Spring
Drought Tolerance [2]  Medium
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [2]  High
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [2]  5 months 25 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  Low
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Summer
Growth Form [2]  Rhizomatous
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Fall
Growth Rate [2]  Moderate
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Wind
Propagation [2]  Bare Root, Sprig
Regrowth Rate [2]  Slow
Root Depth [2]  20 inches (51 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  None
Seed Vigor [2]  Low
Seeds Per [2]  114000 / lb (251327 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Erect
Structure [5]  Grass
Usage [3]  The flowering stems and leaves are used for thatching, in basketry, making brooms etc; The rhizomes are used for making rope and mats; A fibre obtained from the stems is used for making paper; The stems are harvested in the summer, cut into usable pieces and soaked for 24 hours in clear water before cooking for 2 hours with soda ash. Beat the fibres in a ball mill for 1
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  Rapid
Flower Color [2]  Yellow
Foliage Color [2]  Green
Fruit Color [2]  Brown
Height [3]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 7 Low Temperature: 0 F° (-17.8 C°) → 10 F° (-12.2 C°)
Light Preference [4]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [4]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [4]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Mostly Dry
Water Use [2]  Moderate
View Plants For A Future Record : Calamagrostis arenaria

Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Blumeria graminis[8]
Psammina bommeriae[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0