54.5D - Purple moorgrass quaking bogs

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Transition mire communities of the Palaearctic domaine dominated by Molinia caerulea with Sphagnum cuspidatum, Eleocharis palustris, Rhynchospora alba, characteristic of lowlying areas in wet heaths and the periphery of fluctuating oligotrophic moor and heath pools.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Polytricho communis-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)

Westhoff and den Held, 1975: 210; Moravec & al., 1983: 43.