Pannonic acidophile sand fescue steppes

Description (English)

Open grasslands of acidic sands of the Hungarian Little Alföld and the Slovakian Marchfeld, of the Mezõföld periphery, of the northern Danube-Tisza interfluve, of the Drava basin of Croatia and of the Nyirseg complex of northeastern Hungary and the Carei area of northwestern Romania, formed by an admixture of elements of sub-Atlantic Corynephorus swards and of continental, Pannonic, Festuca vaginata grasslands, dominated by Corynephorus canescens, Festuca vaginata, and with Minuartia viscosa, Anchusa officinalis ssp. pustulata, Filago germanica, Filago minima, Cynoglossum hungaricum, Thymus serpyllum, Veronica verna, Jasione montana, Helichrysum arenarium, Crepis capillaris, Equisetum ramosissimum, Euphorbia seguierana, Onosma arenaria, Gypsophila paniculata, Silene conica, Koeleria glauca, Scabiosa argentea (Scabiosa ucranica). They constitute a preferential habitat for the rare and threatened Pulsatilla hungarica, Pulsatilla patens and Herniaria hirsuta.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification