34.12 - Euro-Siberian pioneer calcareous sand swards

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Open grasslands of strongly to slightly calcareous inland sands of Western Europe and of western and northern Central Europe, locally to Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus, with Helichrysum arenarium, Silene otites, Silene chlorantha, Dianthus deltoides, Dianthus arenarius, Gypsophila fastigiata ssp. arenaria, Astragalus arenarius, Androsace septentrionalis, Onosma arenaria, Jurinea cyanoides, Koeleria glauca, Festuca psammophila, Festuca polesica, Festuca duvalii and the Brandenburg endemic Stipa borysthenica ssp. germanica, sometimes interspersed with annual formations with Cerastium semidecandrum, Vicia lathyroides, Silene conica, Phleum arenarium, Petrorhagia prolifera, Arenaria serpyllifolia, Sedum acre. Dunal formations can be characterized by conjunction of this code with those of unit 64.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Koelerion glaucae, Sileno conicae-Cerastion semidecandri (Sedo-Cerastion) p.

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)

Lebrun & al., 1949: units 91, 92, 93; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Guinochet and Vilmorin, 1973; Westhoff and den Held, 1975: 151-153; Moravec & al., 1983; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: unit 5.1.4.2, 383; Duvigneaud, 1985; Parent, 1986; Oberdorfer, 1990; Korotkov & al., 1991: 201; Julve, 1993: 26-27; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 5.1.4.1; Opermanis & al., 1997: 56.