Calaminarian grassland
Description (English)
Open formations colonizing heavy metal soils, either natural or resulting from past mining operations, in rapid regression and limited to a few stations in eastern Belgium, western Rhineland, Westphalia and Lower Saxony, and to one station in the southern Netherlands, with outposts in northern France, comprised of a highly specialised flora with the endemics Viola calaminaria, Viola guestphalica, Thlaspi caerulescens (Thlaspi alpestre ssp. calaminare) and Festuca aquisgranensis (Festuca ophioliticola ssp. calaminaria), with Minuartia verna var. hercynica, Silene vulgaris ssp. humilis and Armeria halleri, limited to this formation and the next, and with the steppic, central European Festuca valesiaca.
Source: EUNIS habitat classification
Quick facts
EUNIS habitat type | code R1S2 |
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Vegetation types
Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)
Not availableSpecies mentioned in habitat description
Species scientific name | English common name | Species group |
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Festuca valesiaca | Flowering Plants | |
Minuartia verna | Flowering Plants | |
Silene vulgaris | Flowering Plants |
Other classifications
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type |
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EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) | E1.B2 | Calaminarian grassland | same |
History
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type | Comment |
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EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | E1.B2 | Calaminarian grassland | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | E1.B2 | Calaminarian grassland | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | E1.B2 | Calaminarian grassland | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | E1.B2 | Calaminarian grassland | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 | E1.B2 | Calaminarian grasslands | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 | E1.42 | Calaminarian grasslands | same | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905 | 34.22 | Calaminarian grasslands | same | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997 | 34.22 | Calaminarian grasslands | same | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996 | 34.22 | same | ||
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993 | 34.22 | same | ||
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991 | 34.22 | same |