37.3111 - Central European calcicline purple moorgrass meadows

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Species-rich humid grasslands of oligotrophic calcareous or calcicline soils of Central Europe, northeast to eastern Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, east to the Bohemian basin, Slovakia and the Ukraine, southeast to Austria, dominated by Molinia caerulea, with Selinum carvifolia, Succisa pratensis, Galium uliginosum, Serratula tinctoria, Gentiana pneumonanthe, Stachys officinalis (Betonica officinalis), Sanguisorba officinalis, Laserpitium prutenicum, Carex panicea, Euphrasia rostkoviana, Prunella vulgaris, Ranunculus acris, Silaum silaus, Cirsium tuberosum, Carex tomentosa, Tetragonolobus maritimus, Inula salicina, Dianthus superbus, Epipactis palustris, Ophioglossum vulgatum, Iris sibirica.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Molinion caeruleae p. ("Eu-Molinion"): Molinietum caeruleae (Molinietum medioeuropaeum, Eu-Molinietum, Stachyo-Molinietum, Selino-Molinietum caeruleae, Cirsio tuberosi-Molinietum caeruleae, Allio angulosi-Molinietum caeruleae, Diantho superbi-Molinietum caeruleae), Galio borealis-Molinietum, Parnassio palustris-Molinietum caeruleae

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)

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