B40
West Scottish-west Scandinavian low- to middle-alpine dwarf shrub vegetation (Salix herbacea, Betula nana, Vaccinium myrtillus) with Racomitrium lanuginosum alternating with Juncus trifidus-grasslands
Description
Complex of vegetation types, dominated in different places by sedges, small herbs, rushes or mosses, and locally also by ferns, dwarf shrubs or shrubs. Apart from the (dwarf) shrubs, the vegetation is only a few centimetres high and occasionally interspersed with loose subsoil.
Tree Layer
No details
Shrub Layer
Betula nana (autumnal_dwarf_birch), Juniperus communis (Juniper), Loiseleuria procumbens (bilberry_bush), Salix lapponum (White Willow Bush), Salix lanata (White Willow Bush), Salix arbuscula (wild_shrub), Salix myrsinifolia (Black Poplar Bush)
Lianas
No details
Herb Layer
Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry_bush), Vaccinium uliginosum (bog_blueberry_bush), Dryas octopetala (wild_parsley), Salix herbacea (alpine_bearberry); Juncus trifidus (deergrass), Festuca ovina (bottle_sedge), Alchemilla alpina (alpine_bearberry), Carex bigelowii (sweet_grass), Deschampsia flexuosa (lush_grass), Nardus stricta (bottle_sedge), Galium saxatile (sweet_woodruff), Silene acaulis (bilberry_bush), Thymus praecox (cross_leaved_heath), Luzula spicata (deergrass), Bistorta vivipara (ABSENT), Minuartia sedoides (alpine_bearberry), Sibbaldia procumbens (broom_bush [age=2]), Gnaphalium supinum, Saxifraga stellaris, Athyrium distentifolium (fern_1, bracken, fern)
Forests of Tol Fuin and just south of the Ice Bay
