Brook thistle meadows

Eutrophic wet meadows of the Carpathian region dominated by [Cirsium rivulare], eastern vicariant of the communities of unit 37.211, characteristically developed on loams, gleys or pseudogleys, often with anmoor characteristics, in higher, cooler elevations of the montane level. They extend to lowland and hill pre-Pannonic areas, to the pre-Alps of Styria, to the eastern Hercynian ranges, and to the eastern Germano-Baltic plain, northeast, as rare communities, to Lithuania.