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 mostly collinar and montane, shaded waters poor in lime, with Ranunculus hederaceus, Cardamine amara, C. flexuosa, C. raphanifolia, Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, C. alternifolium, Saxifraga clusii ssp. lepismigena, ranging southwest to the Cordillera Cantabrica.