36.3 - Boreo-Alpic acidophilous alpine grasslands

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Alpine and subalpine grasslands developed over crystalline rocks and other lime-deficient substrates or on decalcified soils of the boreal mountains, including the Caledonian mountains of Scotland, and of the western Alpids and their satellite Hercynian ranges, with Armeria alpina, Armeria alliacea (Armeria montana), Euphrasia minima, Gentiana alpina, Geum montanum, Juncus trifidus, Lychnis alpina, Pedicularis pyrenaica, Phyteuma hemisphaericum, Pulsatilla alpina ssp. sulphurea, Ranunculus pyrenaeus, Sempervivum montanum, Botrychium lunaria.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Caricetea curvulae

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)

Ellenberg, 1963; Guinochet and Vilmorin, 1973; Ozenda, 1985; Jonglet, 1990; Grabherr, 1993c.