34.31 - Sub-continental steppic grasslands

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Open grasslands of subcontinental climate areas of the nemoral zone of Western, Northern, Central and northern Eastern Europe and of the sub-Mediterranean zone of the Balkan peninsula, with Festuca valesiaca, Festuca rupicola, Festuca pseudovina, Festuca duvalii, Festuca trachyphylla, Stipa capillata, Stipa joannis, Stipa pulcherrima, Stipa tirsa (Stipa stenophylla), Stipa dasyphylla, Chrysopogon gryllus, Danthonia alpina, Koeleria macrantha, Agrostis capillaris, Poa bulbosa, Poa molinerii (Poa badensis var. xerophila), Poa perconcinna (Poa carniolica), Melica ciliata, Brachypodium pinnatum, Carex supina, Carex stenophylla, Carex humilis and herbs such as Adonis vernalis, Pulsatilla montana, Pulsatilla pratensis, Pulsatilla grandis, Pulsatilla patens, Pulsatilla pusilla, Veronica spicata, Allium flavum, Allium sphaerocephalon, Silene otites, Artemisia campestris, Achillea collina, Achillea nobilis, Achillea setacea, Centaurea rhenana (Centaurea stoebe), Inula spiraeifolia, Verbascum phoeniceum, Armeria alliacea, Kochia prostrata, Euphorbia seguierana, Euphorbia cyparissias, Campanula sibirica, Iris pumila, Iris variegata, Linum flavum, Onosma taurica, Onosma arenaria, Silene otites, Potentilla arenaria, Potentilla cinerea, Aster linosyris, Onobrychis arenaria, Oxytropis pilosa, Oxytropis halleri, Ononis pusilla, Ononis cenisia, Astragalus onobrychis, Astragalus exscapus, Astragalus danicus, Astragalus vesicarius, Astragalus austriacus, Astragalus alopecuroides, Eryngium campestre, Dianthus carthusianorum, often of oriental, mostly Sarmatic, affinities. Communities of sub-Pannonic, sub-Pontic and sub-Sarmatic hills are included, while those of the main wooded steppe and steppe zones of the Pannonic basin and the Ponto-Sarmatic lowlands and plateaux are listed separately under unit 34.9.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Festuco-Brometea: Festucetalia valesiacae, Astragalo-Potentilletalia, p.

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)

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