Concept: Vegetated snow-patch in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/E4.1
Preferred label	Vegetated snow-patch
Definition	Vegetated areas that retain late-lying snow. Dominants may be mosses, liverworts, macrolichens, graminoids, ferns and small herbs. Snow patches are well developed in boreal and arctic mountains and in subarctic lowlands; they are well represented, though of much smaller extent, above the tree limit in the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians and Caucasus. They are found very locally in the Paeonian mountains, Sierra Nevada, Cordillera Central, Monti Sibillini, Abruzzi, Scottish Highlands and Sudeten.
Notation	E4.1
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2014-01-31
Accepted Date	2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
Editorial note	Physis habitat from which the description is taken includes this EUNIS habitat
Has broader	E4 (Alpine and subalpine grasslands) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has narrower	E4.11 (Boreo-alpine acidocline snow-patch grassland and herb habitats) in biodiversity/eunishabitats E4.12 (Boreo-alpine calcicline snow-patch grassland and herb habitats) in biodiversity/eunishabitats E4.13 (Ponto-Caucasian snow-patch grassland) in biodiversity/eunishabitats E4.14 (Boreo-alpine fern snowbed grassland) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has exact match	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats/147