Acid pointer

As acid pointer plants are called, which only on soils with a certain value pH can thrive. These plants show the acidity of the soil. The heather ( Calluna vulgaris ), for example, lives in acidic soils. With this, sweet grasses like the golden fescue grass ( Festuca paniculata ), or the sheep fescue , which occurs widespread in northern to central Europe , like to join plants . The real sheep fescue, named for the species group of sheep fescue ( Festuca ovina agg.), Prefers loose, drained soils poor in base and is therefore also an acid indicator.

See also

• Pointer values ​​according to Ellenberg ,
• Acidophilia

literature

• Rita Lüder: Basic course in plant identification. 7th edition. Quelle & Meyer Verlag, Wiebelsheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-494-01615-3 , p. 44.