Dacian dyer's greenweed oak forests

Description (English)

Mesophile or meso-xerophile Quercus petraea-dominated acidophilous oak forests of the foothills of the Apuseni mountains and of the Southern Carpathians, of the western and southern foothills of the Eastern Carpathians, and of the Transylvanian Plateau, accompanied by the cortège of Central European acidophilous species mixed with thermophile elements typical of the Genisto tinctoriae-Quercetum petraeae, in particular, Luzula luzuloides, Genista tinctoria, Genista germanica, Lembotropis nigricans (Cytisus nigricans), Veronica officinalis, Galium vernum, Lychnis viscaria (Viscaria vulgaris), Hieracium racemosum, Hieracium sabaudum, Hieracium umbellatum supplemented by Dacian species, such as Melampyrum bihariense, Lathyrus hallersteinii, Lathyrus venetus, Galium pseudaristatum,
Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, Crocus banaticus, and usually with distributed Melin the Central European Hercynian ranges and their periphery, the northern and northeastern Alpine periphery and the northern and western Carpathian periphery.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification