British NVC community MG9 (Holcus lanatus - Deschampsia cespitosa grasslands) is one of the mesotrophic grassland

Mesotrophic grasslands in the British National Vegetation Classification system

This article gives an overview of the mesotrophic grassland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.-Introduction:The mesotrophic grassland communities of the NVC were described in Volume 3 of British Plant Communities, first published in 1992, along with the...

 communities in the British National Vegetation Classification

British National Vegetation Classification

The British National Vegetation Classification or NVC is a system of classifying natural habitat types in Great Britain according to the vegetation they contain....

 system. It is one of three communities associated with poorly-drained permanent pastures.

It is a widespread community throughout the British lowlands. There are two subcommunities.

Community composition

The following constant species are found in this community:

• Tufted Hair-grass
  Tufted Hair-grass
  Deschampsia cespitosa, commonly known as Tufted Hair-grass or Tussock grass is a perennial tufted plant in the grass family Poaceae...
  
   (Deschampsia cespitosa ssp. cespitosa)
• Yorkshire-fog (Holcus lanatus)

No rare species are associated with this community.

Subcommunities

There are two subcommunities:

• the Poa trivialis subcommunity
• the Arrhenatherum elatius subcommunity