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Internal ID UUID6440272cdbc9a549629684
Scientific name Luzula nivalis
Authority (Laest.) Spreng.
First published in Syst. Veg. 2: 111 (1825)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Juncoides nivalis (Laest.) Coville Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 4: 209 (1893)
Juncus campestris var. nivalis (Laest.) Sommerf. Suppl. Fl. Lapp. 16. 1826
Luzula arctica Blytt Norges Fl. 1: 299 (1861)
Luzula campestris var. nivalis Laest. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 1822: 334 (1822)
Luzula tolmatchewii Kuvaev Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. , n.s., 99(1): 118 (1994)
Luzula arcuata var. hookeriana Trautv. Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 1: 80 (1871)
Luzula arctica var. typica Buchenau Pflanzenr. , IV, 36: 69 (1906)

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Language Common/alternative name
English arctic wood-rush
English snowy wood-rush
Arabic متلألئة ثلجية
Finnish lumipiippo
Finnish luzula arctica
Norwegian Bokmål snøfrytle
Swedish snöfryle

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- Native
  • Asia-temperate
    • Russian Far East
      • Magadan
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • Buryatiya
      • Chita
      • Irkutsk
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • Tuva
      • West Siberia
      • Yakutskiya
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • East European Russia
      • North European Russia
    • Northern Europe
      • Finland
      • Norway
      • Svalbard
      • Sweden
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Labrador
      • Québec
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Greenland
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Nunavut
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • British Columbia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000777991
Canadensys 6337
Tropicos 16900096
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30284498-2
The Plant List kew-316552
Open Tree Of Life 118009
NCBI Taxonomy 630109
IPNI 30284498-2
iNaturalist 906533
GBIF 2700680
Freebase /m/0sgg26p
EPPO LUUAC
EOL 243136
Wikipedia Luzula_nivalis

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Annual variability of heavy metal content in Svalbard reindeer faeces as a result of dietary preferences Węgrzyn MH, Wietrzyk P, Lehmann-Konera S, Chmiel S, Cykowska-Marzencka B, Polkowska Ż Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 30-Oct-2018
PMCID:PMC6290696
doi:10.1007/s11356-018-3479-8
PMID:30377969
Landscape topography structures the soil microbiome in arctic polygonal tundra Taş N, Prestat E, Wang S, Wu Y, Ulrich C, Kneafsey T, Tringe SG, Torn MS, Hubbard SS, Jansson JK Nat Commun 22-Feb-2018
PMCID:PMC5823929
doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03089-z
PMID:29472560
Vascular plant biodiversity of the lower Coppermine River valley and vicinity (Nunavut, Canada): an annotated checklist of an Arctic flora Saarela JM, Sokoloff PC, Bull RD PeerJ 31-Jan-2017
PMCID:PMC5300018
doi:10.7717/peerj.2835
PMID:28194307
Highly Overlapping Winter Diet in Two Sympatric Lemming Species Revealed by DNA Metabarcoding Soininen EM, Gauthier G, Bilodeau F, Berteaux D, Gielly L, Taberlet P, Gussarova G, Bellemain E, Hassel K, Stenøien HK, Epp L, Schrøder-Nielsen A, Brochmann C, Yoccoz NG PLoS One 30-Jan-2015
PMCID:PMC4312081
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115335
PMID:25635852

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