Snow-bed vegetation
Description (English)
Vegetation on skeletal, sometimes humic, soils developed beneath late-lying snow patches in Arctic and subarctic lowlands, boreal mountains and temperate high mountains of Central and Southern Europe. Dominated by grasses, sedges, herbs and cryptogams, the species composition depends on regional climate, altitude, bedrock and soil type, and sometimes includes endemics, particularly in Southern Europe.
Source: EUNIS habitat classification
Quick facts
EUNIS habitat type | code R41 |
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Relation to | Resolution 4 habitat type (used for designation of Emerald sites) |
Legal status
Relation to other habitat types mentioned in legal instruments
Vegetation types
Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)
Not availableIndicator species
Diagnostic species occur concentrated in the habitat in question, but are absent or rare in other habitats. They are good positive indicators of the habitat, but they do not need to occur in every location of the habitat.
Species scientific name | English common name | Species group |
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Veronica alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Gnaphalium supinum | Flowering Plants | |
Salix herbacea | Flowering Plants | |
Sibbaldia procumbens | Flowering Plants | |
Saxifraga androsacea | Flowering Plants | |
Gnaphalium hoppeanum | Flowering Plants | |
Cardamine alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Carex pyrenaica | Flowering Plants | |
Cerastium cerastoides | Flowering Plants | |
Luzula alpinopilosa | Flowering Plants | |
Poa alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Alchemilla pentaphyllea | Flowering Plants | |
Ranunculus alpestris | Flowering Plants | |
Sedum alpestre | Flowering Plants | |
Leucanthemopsis alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Ranunculus crenatus | Flowering Plants | |
Alchemilla fissa | Flowering Plants |
Constant species occur frequently in the habitat, but they may include generalist species that are also frequent in other habitats.
Species scientific name | English common name | Species group |
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Poa alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Salix herbacea | Flowering Plants | |
Gnaphalium supinum | Flowering Plants | |
Veronica alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Sibbaldia procumbens | Flowering Plants | |
Silene acaulis | Flowering Plants | |
Luzula alpinopilosa | Flowering Plants | |
Leucanthemopsis alpina | Flowering Plants | |
Ranunculus alpestris | Flowering Plants | |
Saxifraga oppositifolia | Flowering Plants | |
Cerastium cerastoides | Flowering Plants | |
Saxifraga stellaris | Flowering Plants | |
Saxifraga androsacea | Flowering Plants | |
Sedum alpestre | Flowering Plants | |
Myosotis alpestris | Flowering Plants | |
Geum montanum | Flowering Plants | |
Ranunculus glacialis | Flowering Plants | |
Arabis alpina | Flowering Plants |
Dominant species are those that often reach high cover in the habitat, thus determining the habitat physiognomy.
Species scientific name | English common name | Species group |
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Other classifications
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type |
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EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) | E4.1 | Vegetated snow-patch | same |
European Red List of Habitats | E4.1 | Vegetated snow patch | same |
History
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type | Comment |
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EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | E4.1 | Vegetated snow-patch | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | E4.1 | Snow-patch grassland | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | E4.1 | Snow-patch grassland | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | E4.1 | Snow-patch grassland | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 | E4.1 | Snow-patch grassland | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 | E4.1 | Snow-patch grassland habitats | same | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905 | 36.1 | Part of Snow-patch communities | wider | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997 | 36.1 | Part of Snow-patch communities | wider | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996 | 36.1 | wider | ||
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993 | 36.1 | wider | ||
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991 | 36.1 | wider | ||
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1989 | 36.1 | wider |