Subcontinental Calluna - Genista heaths

Relatively thermophile, subcontinental Calluna vulgaris heaths of Central Europe, in central and southern Germany, eastern France, the Czech Republic, Austria, with Genista germanica, Genista tinctoria, Chamaespartium sagittale (Genista sagittalis), Vaccinium myrtillus and, in peri-Alpine habitats, Lembotropis nigricans (Cytisus nigricans), Chamaecytisus supinus (Cytisus supinus), Polygala chamaebuxus, Vaccinium vitis-idaea. They have their main area of distribution in the Thuringian and Franconian ranges, the Upper Palatinate hills, the Danube-Isar hills, the Swabian Alb, the Baar plateau, the eastern Black Forest, the Rhenano-Burgondian hills, the foothills of the Bayerischer Wald, the hills and low mountains of the Bohemian uplands, in the Bavarian and Austrian Danube basin, in the southeastern foothills of the Alps, in Carinthia and Styria; they irradiate northward, in thermophilous enclaves, in the Elbe basin.

Código Eunis 2021: S4222