Medio-European wood barley beech forests
Description (English)
Slightly moist Fagus sylvatica forests developed over calcareous bedrock on stony, neutral or weakly acid rendzina or similar humus-carbonate soils, with Galium odoratum, Melica uniflora, Mercurialis perennis, Lathyrus vernus, Asarum europaeum, Hordelymus europaeus, Epipactis helleborine, Epipactis leptochila, Neottia nidus-avis, Circaea lutetiana, Viola reichenbachiana, distributed locally on the hills, low mountains and plateaux of the Hercynian arc and its peripheral regions, from the Ardenne-Eifel to Moravia, and north to Denmark and southern Sweden, in the entire Jura catena, in Lorraine and the eastern Paris basin, in Burgundy, in the Bavarian Alpine piedmont, the Vorarlberg limestone Alps, the Wienerwald. They include the Central European Fagus-Mercurialis perennis forests, as well as occasional stands exceptionally rich in spring-flowering geophytes, sometimes known as wild garlic-rich beech woods.
Source: EUNIS habitat classification
Quick facts
EUNIS habitat type | code G1.6311 |
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Bern Convention | Included in a Resolution 4 habitat type at a higher level (G1.6) |
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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Asarum europaeum | Flowering Plants | |
Circaea lutetiana | Flowering Plants | |
Epipactis helleborine | Flowering Plants | |
Epipactis leptochila | Flowering Plants | |
Fagus sylvatica | Flowering Plants | |
Galium odoratum | Flowering Plants | |
Hordelymus europaeus | Flowering Plants | |
Lathyrus vernus | Flowering Plants | |
Melica uniflora | Flowering Plants | |
Mercurialis perennis | Flowering Plants | |
Neottia nidus-avis | Flowering Plants | |
Viola reichenbachiana | Flowering Plants |
Other classifications
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type |
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Palaearctic Habitat Classification 200112 | 41.1311 | Medio-European wood barley beech forests | source |
History
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type |
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EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | G1.6311 | Medio-European wood barley beech forests | same |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | G1.6311 | Medio-European wood barley beech forests | same |