British NVC community CG2

NVC community CG2 Festuca ovina-Avenula pratensis grassland is one of the calcicolous grassland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system, characterised by a species-rich pasture of grasses and forbs growing in thin soil over chalk or limestone. It is one of three short-sward communities associated with heavy grazing, within the lowland calcicolous grassland group, and is regarded as "typical" chalk grassland.

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