Western lowland Scots pine forests

Common name:
Western lowland Scots pine forests
Habitat code:
G3.4212
Description:

Relict woods of indigenous [Pinus sylvestris] of coarse sands in enclaves of cold subcontinental climate west of the main range of the subcontinental pine and pine-oak woodland, as in the Pays de Bitche basin.

Important species scientific name Corresponding species comments
Pinus sylvestris Linnaeus, 1753 Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising