Boreal meadow springs

Bryophyte-rich communities of lime-poor cold springs of the subalpine and alpine zones of boreoalpine and arctoalpine mountains of Fennoscandia and of Iceland, characterized by a greater abundance of tall herbs than in the communities of units Q24112 to Q24115, in particular, of units Q24112 and Q24113, to which they are closely related, with a resulting lesser prominence of the moss carpet, dominated by Pohlia wahlenbergii ssp. glacialis (Pohlia albicans f. glacialis) or Philonotis fontana. The communities of this unit may grade into Potentilla crantzii-Bistorta vivipara communities of unit R4126 and moist Dryas heaths of unit S2283.

Código Eunis 2021: Q24116