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
MC11: Festuca rubra-Daucus carota ssp. gummifer maritime grassland
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
Armerieto maritimae-Daucetum gummiferi Géhu 1964 p.p.
Constant species
Festuca rubra, Dactylis glomerata, Daucus carota ssp. gummifer.
Rare species
Brassica oleracea, Scilla verna, Silene nutans.
Physiognomy
The Festuca-Daucus maritime grassland has a fairly short, rather tussocky sward generally dominated by grasses of which F. rubra is usually the most abundant. Dactylis glomerata is constant and, though rarely abundant, may be in the form variously described as var. abbreviata, var. maritima or ssp. hispanica, which Tutin (1980a) considered to be one of the tetraploid populations within the species. Daucus carota ssp. gummifer is also constant in generally small amounts and, when flowering, it gives the vegetation a distinctive stamp. The maritime element in the community is small and the only other frequent species throughout are Plantago lanceolata and Lotus corniculatus. Bryophytes are rare.
Sub-communities
Bromus hordeaceus ssp. ferronii sub-community: Armerieto-Daucetum gummiferi typicum Géhu 1964 p.p. B. hordeaceus ssp. ferronii and Armeria maritima are additional constants here and Plantago coronopus, P. lanceolata and Lotus corniculatus occur frequently. Although F. rubra is often abundant, there is usually no single dominant and the sward is sufficiently open to permit repeated colonisation by B. hordeaceus ssp. ferronii and other therophytes such as Desmazeria marina, Senecio vulgaris and Vicia sativa.
Ononis repens sub-community. O. repens is an additional constant in this sub-community and occasionally it is co-dominant with F. rubra.
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- British Plant Communities , pp. 305 - 309Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000