37.32 - Heath rush meadows and humid mat-grass swards

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Humid, often peaty or semipeaty swards of middle Europe, southwest to northwestern Iberia and east to Lithuania, with Nardus stricta, Juncus squarrosus, Festuca ovina, Gentiana pneumonanthe, Pedicularis sylvatica, Scirpus cespitosus and sometimes Sphagnum spp.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Nardetalia: Juncion squarrosi

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: unit 121; Tüxen and Oberdorfer, 1958; Schumacker, 1973; Sougnez, 1977; De Sloover & al., 1978; Noirfalise & al., 1980, 1985: unit Hmo [p.]; Moravec & al., 1983; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Rivas-Martinez & al., 1984b; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: unit 5.2.3.3a; Diaz Gonzalez and Fernandez Prieto, 1987; Ellenberg, 1988; Oberdorfer, 1990; Korotkov & al., 1991: 199; Rodwell, 1992: unit U6; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 5.2.3.3a.