Mediterranean [Limoniastrum] scrubs

Common name:
Mediterranean [Limoniastrum] scrubs
Habitat code:
A2.528
Description:

Formations of often large, silver-glaucous shrubs of [Limoniastrum monopetalum] with showy pink flowers in late spring, of drier parts of Mediterranean and Iberian saltmarshes, distributed locally in North Africa, the Iberian peninsula, the southern Italian peninsula, western Sicily, Lampedusa, Sardinia and Crete.

Important species scientific name Corresponding species comments
Limoniastrum monopetalum (Linnaeus, 1753) Boiss., 1848 Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Sites in which this biotope type has been recorded
EUNIS Site Code Source Greek Natura 2000 code Site name
B00000001 B00000001 PARQUE NACIONAL DE DOÑANA
B00000231 B00000231 MARISMAS DEL ODIEL