Acid siliceous screes of warm exposures

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Common name:

Habitat code:

H2.5

Description:

Siliceous screes of warm exposures in mountain ranges of the nemoral zone, including the Alps, Pyrenees and Caucasus, and of Mediterranean mountains, hills and lowlands and, locally, of warm, sunny middle European upland or lowland sites.

References:

Hill, M.O., Moss, D. & Davies, C.E., 2004

Important species scientific name	Corresponding species comments
Erigeron frigidus Boiss. ex DC.	Annex II species - habitat relation; source Unit of Vegetation Science, Lancaster, 2000
Androsace pyrenaica Lam.	Annex II species - habitat relation; source Unit of Vegetation Science, Lancaster, 2000

Code in legal instrument
Legal instrument	Habitat type legal name	Habitat type legal code
EU Habitats Directive Annex I	Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree	8130

Next sub-divisions
EUNIS Code	Type Name	Name
H2.58	Southeast European thermo-siliceous screes	Southeast European thermo-siliceous screes
H2.57	Anatolian siliceous screes	Anatolian siliceous screes
H2.53	Ibero-Pyrenean acidophile fern screes	Ibero-Pyrenean acidophile fern screes
H2.56	Central Mediterranean siliceous screes	Central Mediterranean siliceous screes
H2.51	Pyreneo-Alpine thermo-siliceous screes	Pyreneo-Alpine thermo-siliceous screes
H2.52	Oro-Cantabrian siliceous screes	Oro-Cantabrian siliceous screes
H2.54	Carpetano-Iberian siliceous screes	Carpetano-Iberian siliceous screes
H2.55	Nevadan siliceous screes	Nevadan siliceous screes