Triestine knapweed-chrysopogon grasslands

Lacunar, cespitose steppic grasslands of the northeastern Adriatic dominated by the tall andropogonid grasses Chrysopogon gryllus and Dichanthium ischaemum, associated with Cleistogenes serotina, and with Carex humilis, Anthyllis adriadica, Asperula purpurea, the endemic Centaurea cristata, Artemisia alba, Bupleurum veronense, Petrorhagia saxifraga, Argyrolobium zanonii, Onosma javorkae, Carlina corymbosa, Gentiana tergestina. They are characteristic of the Triestine karst, with uncommon occurrence in karstic Slovenia. These tall-grass steppic grasslands are intermediate between the more mediterranean andropogonid grass steppes of unit R1E644 and the peri-Alpine Chrysopogon grasslands of unit R1A37. Related Chrysopogon grasslands also exist in units R1K1 and R1K3.

Código Eunis 2021: R1K24