Alpide [Arctostaphylos uva-ursi] and [Arctostaphylos alpinus] heaths

Mats of [Arctostaphylos uva-ursi] or [Arctostaphylos alpinus] of the alpine, subalpine and locally, montane, belts of the Alps, the Pyrenees, the northern and central Apennines, the Dinarides, the Carpathians, the Balkan Range, the Rhodopides (south to the Slavianka-Orvilos, the Menikion, the Pangeon, the Falakron and the Rhodopi), the Moeso-Macedonian mountains (including Athos), the Pelagonides (south to the Greek Macedonian border ranges Tzena, Pinovon and Kajmakchalan) and Olympus, in the Thessalian mountains, mostly on calcareous substrates. The species [Arctostaphylos alpinus] is not found in Greece.