| Concept URI | http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/E1.A21 |
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| Preferred label | Iberian [Festuca] - [Plantain] swards |
| Definition | Open perennial formations colonizing arenaceous or skeletal, often unstable, siliceous soils of the supra-Mediterranean levels of Iberian mountains, rich in cushion-forming, rosette-leaved chamaephytes ([Jasione crispa ssp. sessiliflora], [Plantago radicata], [Scleranthus perennis]) and cespitose, rough perennial grasses ([Festuca costei], [Festuca indigesta], [Festuca summilusitana], [Corynephorus canescens], [Koeleria caudata ssp. crassipes]). Various formations, characterized by, among others, [Hieracium castellanum], [Leucanthemopsis pulverulenta], [Dianthus merinoi], [Dianthus laricifolius], [Armeria caballeroi], [Armeria alliacea], [Thymus serpylloides ssp. gadorensis], [Teucrium aureum] are distributed in the Cantabrian range, the southern Galician and Leonese mountains, the Iberian Range, the Cordillera Central, the Montes de Toledo, the Sierra Nevada. |
| Notation | E1.A21 |
| Status | Valid |
| Status Modified | 2014-01-31 |
| Accepted Date | 2014-01-31 |
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