British NVC community OV8

British NVC community OV8 (Veronica persica - Alopecurus myosuroides community) is one of the open habitat communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of eight arable weed and wasteland communities of fertile loams and clays.

This community is essentially the same as the Alopecuro-Chamomilletum recutitae assemblage of Wasscher 1941, though the latter is now usually treated as part of the Veronico - Lamietum hybridi assemblage.

It is a widespread community. There are no subcommunities.

Community composition

The following constant species are found in this community:

Black-grass (Alopecurus myosuroides)
Black-bindweed (Fallopia convolvulus)
Common couch (Elymus repens)
Knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare)
Common chickweed (Stellaria media)
Common field-speedwell (Veronica persica)

There are no rare species associated with the community.

Distribution

This is a weed community that is associated with winter-sown arable crops on heavy loams and clays. Its distribution is dictated by the range of Alopecurus myosuroides which, in Britain, is common only in the south-east Midlands and East Anglia, and locally as far west as Dorset.

References

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. doi:10.2277/0521391679.

Wasscher, J (1941). "De graanonkruidassociaties in Groningen en Noord-Drente". Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief. Utrecht: Nederlandsche Botanische Vereeniging. 51: 435–41.

The British National Vegetation Classification: Vegetation of open habitats
OV1 OV2 OV3 OV4 OV5 OV6 OV7 OV8 OV9 OV10 OV11 OV12 OV13 OV14 OV15 OV16 OV17 OV18 OV19 OV20 OV21 OV22 OV23 OV24 OV25 OV26 OV27 OV28 OV29 OV30 OV31 OV32 OV33 OV34 OV35 OV36 OV37 OV38 OV39 OV40 OV41 OV42

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