Acidophilous Quercus petraea forests of the western Hercynian ranges and their periphery, developed on dry, sandy or stony shallow soils, or as substitution forests of Luzulo-Fagion beech forests, in the collinar and submontane level of the Vosges, the Black Forest, the Palatinate hills, the Kraischgau and Neckar hills, the Odenwald, the Spessart, the Rhenish Schist Ranges including the Ardenne-Eifel, the hills of Westphalia and southern Lower Saxony, the hills and plateaux of Lorraine, Champagne and Burgundy, the eastern Morvan, with a shrub layer comprising Sorbus aucuparia, Frangula alnus, often Ilex aquifolium, and an herb layer that includes Luzula luzuloides, Teucrium scorodonia, Deschampsia flexuosa, Hieracium sabaudum, Hieracium laevigatum, Hieracium lachenalii, Hieracium silvaticum, Hieracium glaucinum, Hieracium umbellatum, Hypericum pulchrum, Lathyrus linifolius.