Peri-Pannonic dwarf almond scrub

Description (English)

Low deciduous, more or less closed, scrub of the Hungarian Central Range, central Transylvania, the Apuseni mountains, the Eastern Carpathians, the southeastern Weinviertel and northern Bergenland of northern Austria, the southern and southeastern periphery of the Pannonic basin, east to the Chepan, Golo Bardo, Zemenska and Konyiavska hills of western Bulgaria and to the Balkan Range of eastern Serbia and Bulgaria, with Prunus fruticosa, Prunus tenella (Amygdalus nana), Prunus spinosa, Rhamnus catharticus, Rosa gallica, Rosa pimpinellifolia, Peucedanum alsaticum, Asparagus officinalis, Festuca rupicola, Agropyron cristatum ssp. pectinatum (Agropyron pectinatum, Elymus hispidus (Agropyron intermedium), Poa angustifolia, Artemisia campestris, Euphorbia cyparissias, Salvia nemorosa, Stachys recta, Teucrium chamaedrys, Vinca herbacea. These forest steppe shrub communities have become greatly reduced throughout their range as a result of changes in land use, in particular, following the expansion of agriculture in the lowlands and low hill regions of the Danube basin.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification