37.21C - Marsh thistle meadows

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Sub-Atlantic wet grasslands of brook banks and soggy slopes of rainy granitic and cristaline hills and low mountains of middle Europe, most characteristic of the eastern Hercynian ranges and the northern pre-Alps, extending west to the Hercynian ranges of sub-Atlantic western Europe, dominated by Cirsium palustre, accompanied by Angelica sylvestris at the lower altitudes, Polygonum bistorta at the higher altitudes.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Polygono-Cirsietum palustris, Angelico-Cirsietum palustris

Bibliography

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Darimont, 1941; Moravec & al., 1983: 50; Julve, 1993: 88, 99; Ellmauer and Mucina, 1993: 318-319.