D5
Northeast European hygrophilous spruce forests (Picea obovata, Picea abies x Picea obovata) with dwarf shrubs, sedges and mosses (Vaccinium uliginosum, Carex globularis, Equisetum sylvaticum, Sphagnum girgensohnii, Polytrichum commune)
Description
Complex of spruce fen forests (a) and horsetail-peat-moss-spruce forests (b) in wet hollows and at the edge of mires. spruce (Picea obovata, Picea abies x obovata) dominates in the tree layer with admixtures of pine and downy birch. Hardly developed shrub layer. Field layer with dominant dwarf shrubs or wood horsetail, sedges and peat-mosses.
D5a: Spruce fen forests
D5b: Peat-spruce forests
Tree Layer
Picea obovata (Siberian Spruce), Picea abies x Picea obovata (Siberian Spruce), admixed Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), Betula pubescens (Downy Birch)
Siberian Spruce, admixed Scots Pine and Downy Birch
Shrub Layer
Alder, Spruce and Pine saplings
Lianas
No details
Herb Layer
D5a: Vaccinium uliginosum (bog_blueberry_bush), Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry_bush), Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry_bush), Ledum palustre (beautyberry_bush), Maianthemum bifolium (sweet_woodruff), Orthilia secunda (wild_parsley);
D5b: Equisetum sylvaticum (wood_horsetail), Carex globularis (sedge), Carex disperma (bottle_sedge), Viola palustris (wild_parsley), Dryopteris carthusiana (fern_1), Oxalis acetosella (alpine_bearberry), Trientalis europaea (greater_wood_rush)
North-eastern Forodwaith
