Astragalus sempervirens ssp. sempervirens, Astragalus sempervirens ssp. muticus, Astragalus sempervirens ssp. cephalonicus formations of the southern Alps, the eastern Pyrenees, Iberia, the Apennines and Greece, transitional between the alpine and subalpine heaths of unit F2.2 and the true Mediterranean hedgehog-heaths of unit F7.4.