Lime-rich oligotrophic vegetation of spring brooks

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Common name:

Habitat code:

C2.19

Description:

Euhydrophyte communities of Palaearctic streams poor in nutrients but rich in lime, characterized in particular by [Potamogeton] and [Chara hispida] or by tufa-forming mosses and algae.

References:

Devillers, P., Devillers-Terschuren, J. and Vander Linden, C., 2001 Spribille T., Schultz M., Breuss O. & E. Bergmeier, 2006

Important species scientific name	Corresponding species comments
Cardamine amara Linnaeus, 1753

Code in legal instrument
Legal instrument	Habitat type legal name	Habitat type legal code
EU Habitats Directive Annex I	Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion	3260