Cushion plant

In botany, cushion plant is a term for compact clumps and cripple growth forms of perennials , as is typical for desert , rock and high mountain plants . One also speaks of cushion cushions in the solitary stand and carpet in the case of a closed structure. They are counted among the Chamaephytes (plants whose renewal buds are close to the ground).

Cushions are characteristic of upholstered corridors , dry grass stocks (such as high mountain lawns or páramo ) and nunatak corridors .

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  Rosette cushion of the mountain houseleek ( Sempervivum montanum subsp. Montanum )

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  Yareta ( Azorella compacta ), next to a grass orchard

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  Raoulia australis (New Zealand)

literature

• Umweltbundesamt (Ed.): Red list of endangered biotope types in Austria. Moors, swamps and spring meadows, high mountain lawns, cushioned floors, lawn fragments and snow soils, fields, arable borders, vineyards and ruderal fields, dwarf shrub heaths, geomorphologically shaped biotope types. (= UBA monographs M-174). New Scientific Publishing House, Vienna 2005