Riparian forests of Fraxinus excelsior and Alnus glutinosa, sometimes Alnus incana, of middle European and northern Iberian lowland or hill watercourses, on soils periodically inundated by the annual rise of the river level, but otherwise well-drained and aerated during low-water; they differ from riparian alder woods within units G1.41 and G1.52 by the strong representation in the dominated layers of forest species not able to grow in permanently waterlogged soils.
Fraxinus excelsior-Alnus glutinosa formations of springs and small streams of Atlantic, sub-Atlantic and subcontinental middle Europe, usually dominated by ashes, with Carex remota, Carex pendula, Carex strigosa, Equisetum telmateia, Rumex sanguineus, Lysimachia nemorum, Cardamine amara, Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, Chrysosplenium alternifolium, Impatiens noli-tangere, Ribes rubrum.