IBEROATLANTICA

Overview

Widespread in short swards above the treeline on acid, relatively deep and never too dry soils where snow persists for a long time. Regional plants, with lobed leaves and whitish pappus, constitute a separate subspecies: S. pyrenaica subsp. cantabrica (Widder) Carlón & al. in Doc. Jard. Bot. Atlánt. 10: 103 (2014)

Status

Native

Nomenclature

Scorzoneroides pyrenaica (Gouan) Holub Euro+Med Plantbase

Species data in Europe

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Habitats

This species has been recorded in the following habitats (only habitats with species frequency > 5% are shown, except in those cases where none exists).:

Alpigenous acidophilous grassland 76%, Cantabrian Festuca eskia closed grasslands 39%, Cantabrian acidophilous stripped grasslands 24%, Alpigenic high mountain Empetrum-Vaccinium heaths 19%, Genista sanabrensis cushion-heaths 13%, Submontane Vaccinium-Calluna heaths 11%, Oro-Cantabrian siliceous screes 8%, Cantabrian Nardus stricta swards 8%

Regional distribution

Localities where the species has been recorded in the context of the study area.