Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities

Open, spring-blooming communities of annuals developed on deep sands of Iberia, of Mediterranean North Africa and, very locally, of southern France and Italy, with [Malcolmia lacera], [Malcolmia ramosissima], [Anthyllis hamosa], [Maresia nana], [Erodium laciniatum], [Erodium cicutarium ssp. bipinnatum], [Arenaria emarginata], [Hymenostemma pseudanthemis], [Loeflingia baetica], [Loeflingia spartea], [Loeflingia tavaresiana], [Loeflingia hispanica], [Linaria donyana], [Linaria pedunculata], [Vulpia membranacea], [Ononis variegata], [Ononis baetica], [Ononis cossoniana], [Ononis subspicata], [Coronilla repanda], [Evax asterisciflora], [Evax lusitanica], [Leucojum trichophyllum]. Coastal dune equivalents are classified as unit B1.48; while others occur on coastal gravel banks, see units B2.4 and B2.5.