Dry closed thermophilous grasslands of middle European or Mediterranean lowlands and hills, up to the montane zone, dominated by perennial grasses; steppic grasslands of continental middle European affinities.
Low-altitude xerophile, rupicolous or psammophilous, grasslands of slightly calcareous substrates, with Festuca heteropachys, F. trachyphylla, Koeleria macrantha (= K. gracilis), Phleum phleoides, Armeria elongata, Artemisia campestris, Aster linosyris, Lychnis viscaria, Silene otites, S. nutans, Chamaespartium sagittale, Campanula patula, Potentilla rupestris, Helianthemum nummularium ssp. obscurum, H. apenninum, Scleranthus perennis, Allium senescens ssp. montanum.