Oro-Scandian bilberry-dwarf cornel birch woods

Description (English)

Low to medium tall (to 6 m) Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii woods of the mountains of Norway and northern Finland, extending from the subalpine belt down, in western Norway, to the fjords, developing in somewhat warmer and wetter areas and occupying thick humus layers on weak podsols of sandy more nutrient-rich moraines than those of units G1.91721 and G1.91722, with an undergrowth dominated by Cornus suecica, Empetrum hermaphroditum, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Deschampsia flexuosa, accompanied by taller shrubs, primarily of Juniperus communis and Salix spp.; accompanying species include Linnaea borealis, Solidago virgaurea, Trientalis europaea, Vaccinium uliginosum, Molinia caerulea, Luzula sylvatica, Thelypteris limbosperma, Gymnocarpium dryopteris, Blechnum spicant, Dryopteris expansa, Dicranum scoparium, Dicranum majus, Hylocomium splendens, Pleurozium schreberi, Cladonia spp.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification