Transition mire communities of boreal and western nemoral regions dominated by Carex rostrata or, in western Siberia, Carex rotundata, on sphagnum or, sometimes, pleurocarp carpets, usually constituting sparse low formations. They extend south to the mountains of the Caucasus. Vegetation of alliance Caricetum rostratae.
Transition mire communities of boreal and western nemoral regions of the Palaearctic domaine constituted by mats of acidophilous sphagna with a usually low, open growth of Carex rostrata, accompanied by Carex nigra, Carex canescens, Carex limosa, Vaccinium oxycoccos; the main sphagna are Sphagnum recurvum, Sphagnum angustifolium, Sphagnum auriculatum, Sphagnum flexuosum, Sphagnum riparium, Sphagnum obtusum, Sphagnum dusenii.