Central European dyer's greenweed oak forests

Mesophile or meso-xerophile, mesothermal acidophilous forests of [Quercus petraea] or sometimes [Quercus robur], mixed in some parts of the range with [Pinus sylvestris] and sometimes [Castanea sativa], of central European affinities, with a cortège of acidophilous species accompanied by thermophile elements, and usually with [Luzula luzuloides] and [Genista tinctoria], distributed in the Central European Hercynian ranges and their periphery, the northern and eastern Alpine periphery, in particular, in Bavaria, lower Austria, Burgenland, Styria and Carinthia, and the northern and western Carpathian periphery.