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
MC5: Armeria maritima-Cerastium diffusum ssp. diffusum maritime therophyte 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
Includes Trifolium occidentale-Herniaria ciliolata-Catapodium marinum and Trifolium occidentale-Scilla autumnalis-Jasione montana noda Coombe 1961; Sagino-Catapodietum marinae R. Tx. & Westhoff 1963; Thero-Sedetum anglici Malloch 1971; Sedion anglici communities Proctor 1975.
Constant species
Armeria maritima, Plantago coronopus, Festuca rubra, Cerastium diffusum ssp. diffusum, Sedum spp. (S. anglicum and S. acre).
Rare species
Allium schoenoprasum, Astragalus danicus, Brassica oleracea, Centaurium capitatum, Genista pilosa, Herniaria ciliolata, Lotus hispidus, Mibora minima, Minuartia verna, Ononis reclinata, Ornithopus pinnatus, Poa bulbosa, P. infirma, Polycarpon tetraphyllum, Romulea columnae, Scilla autumnalis, S. verna, Senecio integrifolius ssp. maritimus, Trifolium occidental, T. suffocatum.
Physiognomy
The Armeria-Cerastium community has a very short open turf in which cushions of A. maritima, tussocks of rather poorly-growing F. rubra, P. coronopus or Sedum spp. may dominate. Sprawling plants of C. diffusum ssp. diffusum occur throughout and the annual grasses Desmazeria marina and Bromus hordeaceus ssp. ferronii are frequent. Numerous winter annuals flourish on the patches of bare ground and many of these are national rarities. Trifolium spp. of restricted distribution are also characteristic of some sub-communities. Bryophytes occur at low frequencies throughout but in some sub-communities they and lichens may attain up to 20% cover.
Sub-communities
Desmazeria marina sub-community: Sagino-Catapodietum marinae R. Tx. & Westhoff 1963 p.p. In this, the most species-poor of the sub-communities, A. maritima and either F. rubra or D. marina tend to co-dominate with scattered plants of C. diffusum ssp. diffusum, B. hordeaceus ssp. ferronii and Spergularia rupicola.
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- British Plant Communities , pp. 275 - 280Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000