Pannonic hygrophile ash-oak-hornbeam forests

Description (English)

Quercus robur, Quercus petraea, Carpinus betulus, Fraxinus angustifolia, Ulmus minor forests of deep nutrient-rich gley soils of the Pannonic plains and hills of Styria, the Burgenland, the Alföld, the northern Hungarian Sator Range, the western Slovakian Danube plain and the eastern Slovakian lowlands, often developed in contact with riverine forests of the Alno-Padion, occupying slightly higher ground, Pannonic vicariant of the Illyrian forests of unit G1.A1A2. Carex brizoides, Anemone nemorosa, Corydalis solida, Galanthus nivalis are abundant in the herb layer, which is particularly rich in vernal ephemerals, including Gagea spathacea, Gagea lutea, Gladiolus imbricatus, Cyclamen purpurascens, Crocus neapolitanus, Erythronium dens-canis, Helleborus dumetorum, Adoxa moschatellina, Anemone ranunculoides, Ranunculus ficaria, Scilla vindobonensis, Leucojum vernum.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification