61.3122 - French sorrel screes

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Species-poor open pioneering communities of dry calcareous screes of the low to moderate altitudes of the Alpine system, the Jura and the middle European Hercynian ranges, dominated by Rumex scutatus, often with Silene vulgaris ssp. glareosa, Silene hayekiana, Hieracium bifidum.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Rumicetum scutati

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)

Lebrun & al., 1949: unit 40; Ellenberg, 1988: 440; Oberdorfer, 1992a: 63; Englisch & al., 1993: 332-333; Julve, 1993: 35; Seliskar, 1998: 13.