British NVC community OV26

This community is found throughout lowland Britain. It occurs on moist, but not waterlogged soils, and is one of the transitional vegetation types around open water and alongside lowland streams; it is often found on damp verges and in ditches alongside roads and tracks.

There are five subcommunities:

• the Juncus effusus - Ranunculus repens subcommunity
• the Phragmites australis - Iris pseudacorus subcommunity
• the Filipendula ulmaria - Angelica sylvestris subcommunity
• the Arrhenatherum elatius - Heracleum sphondylium subcommunity
• the Urtica dioica - Cirsium arvense subcommunity

Rodwell, John S, ed. (March 2000). Maritime communities and vegetation of open habitats. British Plant Communities. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-39167-2.