Mobile dunes forming the seaward cordon or cordons of dune systems of the coasts of nemoral, steppe, Mediterranean and warm-temperate humid zones. Communities of Ammophilion arenariae, Ammophilion borealis, Zygophyllion fontanesii and several indicator species: Ammophila arenaria, Eryngium maritimum, Euphorbia paralias, Otanthus maritimus. White dunes are further subdivided by region: Atlantic, Western Tethyan, Canario-Saharan and Pontic.
White dunes of the Mediterranean coasts and of the subtropical Atlantic coasts of Iberia and mediterranean North Africa, south to Safi at 32° N, dominated, when vegetated, by the marram grass Ammophila arenaria ssp. arundinacea (Ammophila australis), accompanied by, among others, Otanthus maritimus, Echinophora spinosa, Eryngium maritimum, Euphorbia paralias, Cutandia maritima, Medicago marina, Anthemis maritima.