Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- SD1: Rumex crispus-Glaucium flavum shingle community
- SD2: Honkenya peploides-Cakile maritima strandline community
- SD3: Matricaria maritima-Galium aparine strandline community
- SD4: Elymus farctus ssp. boreali-atlanticus foredune community
- SD5: Leymus arenarius mobile dune community
- SD6: Ammophila arenaria mobile dune community
- SD7: Ammophila arenaria-Festuca rubra semi-fixed dune community
- SD8: Festuca rubra-Galium verum fixed dune grassland
- SD9: Ammophila arenaria-Arrhenatherum elatius dune grassland
- SD10: Carex arenaria dune community
- SD11: Carex arenaria-Cornicularia aculeata dune community
- SD12: Carex arenaria-Festuca ovina-Agrostis capillaris dune grassland
- SD13: Sagina nodosa-Bryum pseudotriquetrum dune-slack community
- SD14: Salix repens-Campylium stellatum dune-slack community
- SD15: Salix repens-Calliergon cuspidatum dune-slack community
- SD16: Salix repens-Holcus lanatus dune-slack community
- SD17: Potentilla anserina-Carex nigra dune-slack community
- SD18: Hippophae rhamnoides dune scrub
- SD19: Phleum arenarium-Arenaria serpyllifolia dune annual community: Tortulo-Phleetum arenariae (Massart 1908) Br.-Bl. & de Leeuw 1936
- Maritime cliff communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- 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
SD11: Carex arenaria-Cornicularia aculeata dune 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
- SD1: Rumex crispus-Glaucium flavum shingle community
- SD2: Honkenya peploides-Cakile maritima strandline community
- SD3: Matricaria maritima-Galium aparine strandline community
- SD4: Elymus farctus ssp. boreali-atlanticus foredune community
- SD5: Leymus arenarius mobile dune community
- SD6: Ammophila arenaria mobile dune community
- SD7: Ammophila arenaria-Festuca rubra semi-fixed dune community
- SD8: Festuca rubra-Galium verum fixed dune grassland
- SD9: Ammophila arenaria-Arrhenatherum elatius dune grassland
- SD10: Carex arenaria dune community
- SD11: Carex arenaria-Cornicularia aculeata dune community
- SD12: Carex arenaria-Festuca ovina-Agrostis capillaris dune grassland
- SD13: Sagina nodosa-Bryum pseudotriquetrum dune-slack community
- SD14: Salix repens-Campylium stellatum dune-slack community
- SD15: Salix repens-Calliergon cuspidatum dune-slack community
- SD16: Salix repens-Holcus lanatus dune-slack community
- SD17: Potentilla anserina-Carex nigra dune-slack community
- SD18: Hippophae rhamnoides dune scrub
- SD19: Phleum arenarium-Arenaria serpyllifolia dune annual community: Tortulo-Phleetum arenariae (Massart 1908) Br.-Bl. & de Leeuw 1936
- Maritime cliff communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- 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
Caricetum arenariae Tansley 1939 p.p.
Constant species
Carex arenaria, Cornicularia aculeata.
Rare species
Astragalus danicus, Corynephorus canescens.
Physiognomy
The Carex arenaria-Cornicularia aculeata community includes lichen-rich swards in which sand-sedge is the only constant vascular plant. It is, though, never a vigorous dominant here, only occasionally having high cover and more usually occurring as scattered tufts of shoots, sometimes distinctly moribund. Neither are any other herbs consistently abundant. Festuca ovina and F. rubra are quite commonly found, for example, but usually as small scattered tussocks and, though Agrostis capillaris occasionally forms patches in the turf, these are rarely dense. Then, although Luzula campestris is fairly frequent, it generally occurs as rather sparse individuals. Sometimes more abundant, though only very locally around the East Anglian coast, is the rare grass Corynephorus canescens which, while being essentially a pioneer plant of more open sands, can continue to seed into these swards for several years (Marshall 1967). Certain annual grasses like Aira praecox, A. caryophyllea and Phleum arenarium may also occur with considerable local abundance where bare patches develop. Finally, among the monocotyledons, Ammophila arenaria is a frequent feature of coastal stands of the community though, even more than Carex arenaria, it is characteristically of very debilitated growth, persisting as sparse, scattered tussocks.
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- British Plant Communities , pp. 201 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000