Iberian Festuca - Plantain swards

Description (English)

Open perennial formations colonizing arenaceous or skeletal, often unstable, siliceous soils of the supra-Mediterranean levels of Iberian mountains, rich in cushion-forming, rosette-leaved chamaephytes (Jasione crispa ssp. sessiliflora, Plantago radicata, Scleranthus perennis) and cespitose, rough perennial grasses (Festuca costei, Festuca indigesta, Festuca summilusitana, Corynephorus canescens, Koeleria caudata ssp. crassipes). Various formations, characterized by, among others, Hieracium castellanum, Leucanthemopsis pulverulenta, Dianthus merinoi, Dianthus laricifolius, Armeria caballeroi, Armeria alliacea, Thymus serpylloides ssp. gadorensis, Teucrium aureum are distributed in the Cantabrian range, the southern Galician and Leonese mountains, the Iberian Range, the Cordillera Central, the Montes de Toledo, the Sierra Nevada.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification