Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Maritime cliff communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- MC1: Crithmum maritimum-Spergularia rupicola maritime rock-crevice community: Crithmo-Spergularietum rupicolae Géhu 1964
- MC2: Armeria maritima-Ligusticum scoticum maritime rock-crevice community
- MC3: Rhodiola rosea-Armeria maritima maritime cliff-ledge community
- MC4: Brassica oleracea maritime cliff-ledge community
- MC5: Armeria maritima-Cerastium diffusum ssp. diffusum maritime therophyte community
- MC6: Atriplex prostrata-Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima sea-bird cliff community: Atriplici-Betetum maritimae J.-M. & J. Géhu 1969
- MC7: Stellaria media-Rumex acetosa sea-bird cliff community
- MC8: Festuca rubra-Armeria maritima maritime grassland
- MC9: Festuca rubra-Holcus lanatus maritime grassland
- MC10: Festuca rubra-Plantago spp. maritime grassland
- MC11: Festuca rubra-Daucus carota ssp. gummifer maritime grassland
- MC12: Festuca rubra-Hyacinthoides non-scripta maritime bluebell community
- Vegetation of open habitats
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- INDEX OF SYNONYMS TO MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- INDEX OF SPECIES IN MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF BRITISH PLANT COMMUNITIES
MC12: Festuca rubra-Hyacinthoides non-scripta maritime bluebell community
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Maritime cliff communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- MC1: Crithmum maritimum-Spergularia rupicola maritime rock-crevice community: Crithmo-Spergularietum rupicolae Géhu 1964
- MC2: Armeria maritima-Ligusticum scoticum maritime rock-crevice community
- MC3: Rhodiola rosea-Armeria maritima maritime cliff-ledge community
- MC4: Brassica oleracea maritime cliff-ledge community
- MC5: Armeria maritima-Cerastium diffusum ssp. diffusum maritime therophyte community
- MC6: Atriplex prostrata-Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima sea-bird cliff community: Atriplici-Betetum maritimae J.-M. & J. Géhu 1969
- MC7: Stellaria media-Rumex acetosa sea-bird cliff community
- MC8: Festuca rubra-Armeria maritima maritime grassland
- MC9: Festuca rubra-Holcus lanatus maritime grassland
- MC10: Festuca rubra-Plantago spp. maritime grassland
- MC11: Festuca rubra-Daucus carota ssp. gummifer maritime grassland
- MC12: Festuca rubra-Hyacinthoides non-scripta maritime bluebell community
- Vegetation of open habitats
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- INDEX OF SYNONYMS TO MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- INDEX OF SPECIES IN MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF BRITISH PLANT COMMUNITIES
Summary
Synonymy
Pteridietum aquilini Goodman & Gillham 1954 p.p.; Endymio-Armerietum maritimae Malloch 1971.
Constant species
Festuca rubra, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, Rumex acetosa, Holcus lanatus.
Rare species
Scilla verna.
Physiognomy
The Festuca-Hyacinthoides community comprises a lush carpet of F. rubra and H. non-scripta with Holcus lanatus (sometimes abundant) and scattered plants of Rumex acetosa. Few other species are uniformly frequent throughout but Daucus carota ssp. gummifer occurs occasionally. Scilla verna and Sedum telephium are distinctive at low frequencies.
Sub-communities
Armeria maritima sub-community: Endymio-Armerietum maritimae, Cochlearia officinalis sub-association Malloch 1971. A. maritima and Silene vulgaris ssp. maritima attain constancy in the grassier sward of this sub-community where H. lanatus and (especially) F. rubra tend to rival H. non-scripta in abundance. Cochlearia officinalis is differential and there are small amounts of other maritime species: C. danica, Beta vulgaris spp. maritima and Spergularia rupicola.
Ranunculus ficaria sub-community: Endymio-Armerietum maritimae, Ranunculus ficaria sub-association Malloch 1971. H. non-scripta is much more consistently dominant here though F. rubra, H. lanatus and Dactylis glomerata are all constant contributors to the sward. The most distinctive feature of the vegetation, however, is the constancy in small amounts of R. ficaria and the preferential occurrence of Heracleum sphondylium, Galium verum and Pteridium aquilinum and a variety of species characteristic of scrub and woodland: Brachypodium sylvaticum, Primula vulgaris, Viola riviniana, Hedera helix and Rubus fruticosus agg.
Habitat
The Festuca-Hyacinthoides community is most characteristic of situations where deep, moist and fertile brown soils develop under moderate maritime influence and it is usually found on gentle to moderate north-facing slopes or in deep gullies fairly high on cliffs.
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- British Plant Communities , pp. 310 - 312Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000