32.61 - True-lavender garrigues

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Montane formations dominated by Lavandula angustifolia ("Lavandula vera") with Genista cinerea ssp. cinerea, Buxus sempervirens (both sometimes co-dominant), Astragalus purpureus, Onobrychis supina, Satureja montana, Artemisia alba, Catananche caerulea, Aphyllanthes monspeliensis, Thymus vulgaris characteristic of great surfaces of the supra-Mediterranean level of southwestern Alps of France, also occurring on the southern flanks of the Pyrenees in northern Spain.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Lavandulo-Astragaletum

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)

Duvigneaud, 1953; Archiloque & al., 1969; Braun-Blanquet and Braun-Blanquet, 1971; Bonin, 1971; Molinier and Martin, 1980; Ozenda, 1981, 1985; Dupias, 1985.