Northern rusty sedge grasslands

Mesophile, often flower-rich grasslands of the northern Alps, and, locally, of the southeastern Alps, in the Karawanken and the Slovenian Alps, occupying deep soils in the subalpine and lower alpine levels of the calcareous ranges, usually dominated by [Carex ferruginea] and with [Astragalus alpinus], [Astragalus frigidus], [Hedysarum hedysaroides], [Lathyrus laevigatus], [Astrantia major], [Centaurea montana], [Anemone narcissiflora], [Crepis pyrenaica], [Crepis pontana], [Pedicularis foliosa], [Traunsteinera globosa], [Phleum hirsutum], [Agrostis agrostiflora].