Zonal arctic and montane boreo-arctic acidophilous dwarf heath of Scandinavia, northern Eurasia, Arctic Ocean archipelagos and North America
Deschampsio flexuosae-Vaccinietalia myrtilli Dahl 1957
Deschampsio flexuosae-Vaccinietalia myrtilli Dahl 1957
loi11 | As documented by the synoptic table of de Foucault (1991: 155), there is a marked difference between the relict Vaccinium heath of the European nemoral mountains, and analogous communities found in boreo-atlantic Great Britain, Scandinavia, Northern Russia and the Arctic Ocean islands. The latter are featured in the synoptic table as columns 12 through 15 and show an absence of Rhododendron species and presence of arctic elements such as Betula nana, Carex bigelowii, Diapsensia lapponica, Lycopodium alpinum and Phyllodoce caerulea. This group of communities is here classified as the Deschampsio-Vaccinietalia myrtilli, comprising two alliances − the Loiseleurio-Arctostaphylion and the Phyllodoco-Vaccinion. (L. Mucina) FD does not support the concept of this order and prefers classifying this vegetation within the Rhododendro-Vaccinietalia.