British NVC community MG12 (Festuca arundinacea grassland) is one of the mesotrophic grassland

Mesotrophic grasslands in the British National Vegetation Classification system

This article gives an overview of the mesotrophic grassland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.-Introduction:The mesotrophic grassland communities of the NVC were described in Volume 3 of British Plant Communities, first published in 1992, along with the...

 communities in the British National Vegetation Classification

British National Vegetation Classification

The British National Vegetation Classification or NVC is a system of classifying natural habitat types in Great Britain according to the vegetation they contain....

 system. It is one of three types of mesotrophic grassland classified as grass-dominated inundation communities.

It is a fairly localised coastal community. There are two subcommunities.

Community composition

The following constant species are found in this community:

• Creeping Bent
  Agrostis stolonifera
  Agrostis stolonifera is a perennial grass species in the Poaceae family. It is stoloniferous and may form mats or tufts...
  
   (Agrostis stolonifera)
• Tall Fescue (Festuca arundinacea)
• Red Fescue (Festuca rubra)

No rare species are associated with this community.

Distribution

This community is exclusively coastal; it is mainly found on the south coast and western coasts of Britain, with an outlying site on the coast of Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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Subcommunities

There are two subcommunities:

• the Lolium perenne - Holcus lanatus subcommunity
• the Oenanthe lachenalii subcommunity