Transition mire communities of boreal and western nemoral regions dominated by the medium sized Carex lasiocarpa, associated with either sphagna or pleurocarps and often accompanied by Eriophorum gracile, Menyanthes trifoliata, usually forming floating meadows. Vegetation of alliance Caricetum lasiocarpae.
Acidocline quaking mires and floating mats of the Palaearctic domaine dominated by Carex lasiocarpa associated with sphagna (Sphagnum angustifolium, Sphagnum recurvum, Sphagnum lindbergii, Sphagnum pulchrum, Sphagnum balticum, Sphagnum dusenii, Sphagnum magellanicum, Sphagnum papillosum, Sphagnum subsecundum, Sphagnum riparium, Sphagnum subnitens, Sphagnum cuspidatum, Sphagnum flexuosum, Sphagnum fimbriatum, Sphagnum palustre, Sphagnum auriculatum) and Polytrichum commune. Characteristic accompanying species include Carex rostrata, Carex nigra, Carex panicea, Equisetum fluviatile, Narthecium ossifragum, Dactylorhiza sphagnicola, Comarum palustre, Vaccinium oxycoccos.