37.3112 - Pre-Alpine calcicline purple moorgrass meadows

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Species-rich humid grasslands of oligotrophic calcareous or calcicline soils of the calcareous northern pre-Alps, the eastern Alps, the Jura, the Baar plateau, dominated by Molinia caerulea, with a species cortŠge characterized by the prominence of Trollius europaeus, Gentiana asclepiadea or Allium suaveolens.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Molinion caeruleae p. ("Eu-Molinion"): Gentiano asclepiadeae-Molinietum caeruleae, Allio suaveolentis-Molinietum, Trollio-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)

Ernst, 1965: 40; de Foucault, 1976: 246-247; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Balatova-Tulackova and Venanzoni, 1989; Pott, 1992: 236; Oberdorfer, 1993b: 386-390, 395-398; Ellmauer and Mucina, 1993: 306-307; Julve, 1993: 74; Oberdorfer, 1994: 39.