Phytosociological description of hay meadows with dominating Trisetum flavescens in the lower montane belt of north-western and western Slovenia

Abstract

We conducted a phytosociological study into hay meadows on former fields on original sites of beech forests form the alliance Aremonio-Fagion in the lower montane belt of the northwestern and western Slovenia (southern Julian Alps, northern part of the Dinaric Alps) and compared them to similar, previously described meadows in Slovenia and northwestern Italy. Based on this comparison they are classified into the new association Rhinantho freynii-Trisetetum flavescentis and new habitat type, southeastern-Alpine-northern-Illyrian lower montane hay meadows – 38.239-S1.

Keywords

• secondary grasslands
• synsystematics
• Trisetum flavescens
• Arrhenatherion
• Illyrian floral province
• Slovenia