Acidocline purple moorgrass meadows

Description (English)

Relatively species-poor humid grasslands of oligotrophic acid moist gley soils, sometimes with stagnant water and peat formation, of middle Europe north to the southern boreal approaches in Fennoscandia and the Faeroe Islands, and south to northwestern Iberia, with Succisa pratensis, Potentilla erecta, Potentilla anglica, Viola persicifolia, Viola palustris, Galium uliginosum, Cirsium dissectum, Crepis paludosa, Luzula multiflora, Juncus conglomeratus (Juncus subuliflorus), Ophioglossum vulgatum, Inula britannica, Lotus uliginosus, Dianthus deltoides, Carex pallescens, Carex demissa, Carex canescens, Carex echinata.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type code R3712

Vegetation types

Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)

Not available

Species mentioned in habitat description

Not available

Other classifications

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) E3.512 Acidocline purple moorgrass meadows same
For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type Comment
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 E3.512 Acidocline purple moorgrass meadows same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 E3.512 Acidocline purple moorgrass meadows same
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