The Wendland is the most subcontinental area of northern Lower Saxony. In spite of the floristic impoverishment compared with southern Central Europe, however, 9 associations and some basal communities can be demonstrated in the skirt vegetation. In partieular the helio-thermophilic skirt vegetation of the dass Trifolio-Geranietea sanguinei is described. Compared with stands of the skirt communities in the hilly country of southern Lower Saxony, the species numbers in the Wendland are clearly

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... wer, however, with higher cover-abundance. The possible reasons for this are discussed.