Oro-Hellenic closed grassland

Description (English)

Dense, closed, usually unsculptured, chionophilous grasslands of acid and often deep soils over siliceous or calcareous substrates of the higher mountains of the southern Balkan peninsula, under Mediterranean climate influence, including the southern Pelagonides (Vermion), the Pindus of Greece and southern Albania, the Thessalian and the Peloponnese mountains; they develop on decalcified colluvions, on damp soils of seeps or poorly drained areas, and in depressions and other situations where snow lingers. Characteristic are Alopecurus gerardii, Poa pumila, Anthoxanthum alpinum, Phleum alpinum, Nardus stricta, Bellardiochloa violacea (Poa violacea), Trisetum flavescens, Trifolium pallescens, Trifolium parnassi, Trifolium heldreichianum, Trifolium alpestre, Trifolium ottonis, Omalotheca supina, Omalotheca hoppeana, Herniaria parnassica, Ranunculus sartorianus, Lotus corniculatus, Thesium parnassi, Plantago lanceolata, Plantago atrata, Plantago holosteum, Scleranthus perennis, Rorippa thracica, Erigeron epiroticus, Acinos alpinus, Luzula pindica, Crocus veluchensis, Scilla nivalis, Corydalis densiflora, Corydalis parnassica, Beta nana, Trinia guicciardii, Botrychium lunaria.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification