Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree
Quick facts
EU Habitats Directive | Annex I habitat type (code 8130) |
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Habitat type | Not priority |
Natura 2000 sites | 816 are designated for this habitat type |
Description (English)
Screes of warm exposures in the Alps and the Pyrenees, of calcareous substrates in the Pyrenees, of Mediterranean mountains, hills and lowlands and, locally, of warm, sunny middle European upland or lowland sites. The vegetation belongs to the Androsacetalia alpinae p., Thlaspietalia rotundifolii p., Stipetalia calamagrostis and Polystichetalia lonchitis orders.
The following subtypes are included:
Pal. 61.31 Peri-Alpine thermophilous screes. Stipion calamagrostidis, Leontodontion hyoseroidis.
Mostly coarse, unstabilised, sunny calcareous screes of the montane and subalpine levels of the Alps and of the uplands and lowlands of western and central middle Europe.
Pal. 61.32 Provençal screes. Pimpinello-Gouffeion.
Screes of Mediterranean southern France, with Gouffeia arenarioides, Ptychotis heterophylla, Linaria supina, Centranthus ruber, Crucianella latifolia.
Pal. 61.33 Pyreneo-Alpine thermo-siliceous screes. Senecion leucophyllae, Taraxacion pyrenaici.
Siliceous screes of warm slopes of the subalpine level of the Alps and of the alpine and subalpine levels of the Pyrenees, usually composed largely of big stones or boulders, with Senecio leucophyllus, Taraxacum pyrenaicum, Galeopsis pyrenaica, Xatardia scabra, Armeria alpina.
Pal. 61.34 Pyrenean calcareous screes. Iberidion spathulatae.
Calcareous screes of the Pyrenees.
Pal. 61.35 Oro-Cantabrian calcareous screes. Linarion filicaulis, Saxifragion praetermissae.
Basiphile screes of the Cordillera Cantabrica.
Pal. 61.36 Oro-Cantabrian siliceous screes. Linarion filicaulis p., Linario-Senecion carpetani p.
Siliceous screes of the Cordillera Cantabrica; floristically rich formations of the "dark" screes of the Cordillera are related to those of Pal. 61.351, though somewhat intermediate towards Pal. 61.38; other more species-poor ones, characterised by Trisetum hispidum and Rumex suffruticosus, belong to the latter.
Pal. 61.37 Iberian fern screes. Dryopteridion oreadis, Dryopteridion submontanae.
Fern-dominated chaotic, boulder fields of siliceous and calcareous Iberian mountains.
Pal. 61.38 Carpetano-Iberian siliceous screes. Linario-Senecion carpetani.
Screes of the Cordillera Central, the Iberian Range, the Leonese mountains, with Linaria saxatilis, Linaria alpina, Digitalis purpurea var. carpetana, Senecio pyrenaicus ssp. carpetanus, Rumex suffruticosus, Santolina oblongifolia, Conopodium bunioides, Reseda gredensis.
Pal. 61.39 Nevadan siliceous screes. Holcion caespitosae.
Siliceous screes of the high levels of the Sierra Nevada, very rich in endemics.
Pal. 61.3A Southern Iberian calcareous screes. Platycapno-Iberidion granatensis, Scrophularion sciaphilae
Screes of the calcareous Baetic mountains of southern and southeastern Iberia.
Pal. 61.3B Central Mediterranean screes
Screes of the Italian peninsula and of the large Mediterranean islands.
Source: Interpretation Manual of European Union Habitats, version EUR 28 (2013)
Distribution
Conservation status
EU conservation status
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Species mentioned in habitat description
Species scientific name | English common name | Species group |
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Gymnocarpium robertianum | Ferns | |
Achnatherum calamagrostis | Flowering Plants | |
Androsace ciliata | Flowering Plants | |
Armeria alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Campanula arvatica | Flowering Plants | |
Campanula jaubertiana | Flowering Plants | |
Carduus carlinoides | Flowering Plants | |
Centranthus ruber | Flowering Plants | |
Cirsium gregarium | Flowering Plants | |
Conopodium bunioides | Flowering Plants | |
Crepis oporinoides | Flowering Plants | |
Crepis pygmaea | Flowering Plants | |
Crucianella latifolia | Flowering Plants | |
Doronicum grandiflorum | Flowering Plants | |
Epilobium anagallidifolium | Flowering Plants | |
Eryngium glaciale | Flowering Plants | |
Festuca glacialis | Flowering Plants | |
Galeopsis angustifolia | Flowering Plants | |
Galeopsis pyrenaica | Flowering Plants | |
Galium cespitosum | Flowering Plants | |
Galium cometerhizon | Flowering Plants | |
Galium pyrenaicum | Flowering Plants | |
Gouffeia arenarioides | Flowering Plants | |
Holcus caespitosus | Flowering Plants | |
Hutchinsia alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Iberis spathulata | Flowering Plants | |
Linaria alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Linaria filicaulis | Flowering Plants | |
Linaria glacialis | Flowering Plants | |
Linaria saxatilis | Flowering Plants | |
Linaria supina | Flowering Plants | |
Minuartia cerastiifolia | Flowering Plants | |
Papaver suaveolens | Flowering Plants | |
Plantago monosperma | Flowering Plants | |
Ptychotis heterophylla | Flowering Plants | |
Ranunculus glacialis | Flowering Plants | |
Reseda gredensis | Flowering Plants | |
Rumex scutatus | Flowering Plants | |
Rumex suffruticosus | Flowering Plants | |
Salix breviserrata | Flowering Plants | |
Santolina oblongifolia | Flowering Plants | |
Saxifraga aizoides | Flowering Plants | |
Saxifraga oppositifolia | Flowering Plants | |
Saxifraga praetermissa | Flowering Plants | |
Senecio leucophyllus | Flowering Plants | |
Sisymbrium supinum | Flowering Plants | |
Taraxacum alpinum | Flowering Plants | |
Taraxacum pyrenaicum | Flowering Plants | |
Trisetum hispidum | Flowering Plants | |
Veronica alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Viola crassiuscula | Flowering Plants | |
Xatardia scabra | Flowering Plants |