Southern rusty sedge grasslands

Mesophile, flower-rich grasslands of the subalpine and lower alpine levels of the southern and southeastern outer Alps of Italy, Austria and Slovenia, including the Insubrian and Garda Alps, the Dolomites, the Venetian and Carnic Alps, the Karawanken, the Julian and Steiner Alps, usually dominated by [Carex ferruginea], [Carex austroalpina] or [Carex sempervirens] with, in particular, [Horminum pyrenaicum], [Pedicularis gyroflexa], [Pedicularis foliosa], [Knautia transalpina], [Astrantia major], [Asphodelus albus], [Traunsteinera globosa] and many composites and peas.