41.5711 - Western Hercynian woodrush-hawksbeard oak forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Acidophilous Quercus petraea forests of the western Hercynian ranges and their periphery, developed on dry, sandy or stony shallow soils, or as substitution forests of Luzulo-Fagion beech forests, in the collinar and submontane level of the Vosges, the Black Forest, the Palatinate hills, the Kraischgau and Neckar hills, the Odenwald, the Spessart, the Rhenish Schist Ranges including the Ardenne-Eifel, the hills of Westphalia and southern Lower Saxony, the hills and plateaux of Lorraine, Champagne and Burgundy, the eastern Morvan, with a shrub layer comprising Sorbus aucuparia, Frangula alnus, often Ilex aquifolium, and an herb layer that includes Luzula luzuloides, Teucrium scorodonia, Deschampsia flexuosa, Hieracium sabaudum, Hieracium laevigatum, Hieracium lachenalii, Hieracium silvaticum, Hieracium glaucinum, Hieracium umbellatum, Hiepericum pulchrum, Lathyrus linifolius.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Quercenion robori-petraeae: Betulo-Quercetum petraeae (Luzulo-Quercetum sensu Oberd. 50 ex Noirf. et Sougn. 56, Hieracio-Quercetum petraeae)

Bibliographie

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)

Noirfalise and Sougnez, 1956; Noirfalise and Thill, 1958; Roisin, 1962; Thill, 1964: 44-45; Oberdorfer, 1967, 1990, 1992b; Sougnez, 1967, 1974; Tanghe, 1968, 1970; Bugnon and Rameau, 1974; Dumont, 1974; Duvigneaud, 1974a; De Sloover & al., 1980: 70, 73-74; Noirfalise, 1984: units VI.4.3.1, VI.4.3.2, VI.4.3.3, VI.4.3.4, VI.4.3.5, VI.4.3.6; Noirfalise, 1987; Ellenberg, 1988; Pott, 1992; Frankard & al., 1998: 29.