Incompletely terrestrialized wetlands occupied by peat-forming vegetation with acid groundwater or (for vegetation rafts) acid underlying pool or lake water. Characteristic species are Calla palustris, Carex chordorrhiza, Carex diandra, Carex heleonastes, Carex lasiocarpa, Carex limosa, Carex rostrata, Menyanthes trifoliata, Potentilla palustris, Rhynchospora alba, Scheuchzeria palustris. Included are rafts of Sphagnum and Eriophorum (D2.38) and quaking rafts of Molinia caerulea (D2.3D). Excluded are stands of vegetation fringing water bodies (C3.2) unless the vegetation raft is sufficiently extensive to count as a habitat in its own right.
Transition mire communities of the Palaearctic domaine dominated by Drepanocladus exannulatus, Drepanocladus revolvens, Scorpidium scorpioides, Calliergon giganteum, Calliergon cuspidatum, Calliergon richardsonii, Campylium stellatum, Paludella squarrosa, associated with sparse Carex limosa, Carex rostrata, Carex lasiocarpa, Carex chordorrhiza, Carex aquatilis, sometimes with Potentilla palustris, Equisetum fluviatile, Sphagnum recurvum, Sphagnum dusenii, Sphagnum riparium, Sphagnum squarrosum, Sphagnum subsecundum or Sphagnum teres, Sphagnum warnstorfii, Sphagnum contortum, Sphagnum auriculatum, Sphagnum platyphyllum, characteristic of mesocline or basicline quaking bogs, often occurring in mosaic with Carex lasiocarpa or Carex diandra formations.