No animals live on the Antarctic continent, even in the warm areas where this botany grows. However, some sea birds and sea mammals visit these beaches to breed. The diet of the breeding animals is found in the Southern Ocean, so except perhaps to sample, this botany is not part of any food chain.
Please feel free to sample it in other locations -- north of 60 degrees S -- where you can find it growing.
The Antarctic Treaty prohibits your harvesting or picking up anything you find south of 60 degrees S.
Antarctic hair grass is not part of any Antarctic food chain.
Antarctic hair grass is not part of any Antarctic food chain.
Deschampsia antarctica (Antarctic hair grass) has no consumers. As well, there are no animals on Antarctica: it's too cold and there is no food chain.
Deschampsia antarctica (Antarctic hair grass)
Yes.
Deschampsia antarctica (Antarctic hair grass) is its own species.The genus Deschampsia commonly known as hair grass or tussock grass, is found in many countries. There are 41 species in this genus.
Antarctic pearlwort and Antarctic hair grass
Deschampsia antarctica (Antarctic hair grass) grows in Antartica.
There are two species of flowering plants, both of which are found in the Antarctic Peninsula: Deschampsia antarctica(Antarctic hair grass) and Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort).
There are two species of flowering plants, both of which are found in the Antarctic Peninsula: Deschampsia antarctica(Antarctic hair grass) and Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort).
Antarctic hair grass only grows in the warmest part of Antarctica, the peninsula. It survives floods and salinity, so one must assume that its water source is at least partially sea water.
You can find flowering plants on every continent. There are two growing in Antarctica (Antarctic hair grass and Antarctic pearlwort.