Acid or neutral, oligotrophic to eutrophic non-calcareous springs. The specialized spring communities belong to the various associations of the Cardamino-Montion or, in Iberian mountains, the Myosotidion stoloniferae; some of them are individualized below. The associated swamp communities belong to the Caricetalia fuscae and their presence can be indicated by use, simultaneously with one of the codes of 54.11, of a code of 54.4.
Spring communities of waters poor in lime dominated by bryophytes, mostly characteristic of northern upland and high montane, alpine or subalpine levels, also locally of well-lit lowland sites. The principal mosses that compose them are Philonotis fontana, P.seriata, Anthelia julacea, Pohlia wahlenbergii, Scapania paludosa, Bryum schleicheri, Sphagnum auriculatum. A few small vascular plants accompany them, in particular Montia fontana, Saxifraga stellaris, S. rivularis, S. aquatica, Cerastium cerastoides, Epilobium anagallidifolium.