British National Vegetation Classification - Communities By Category

Communities By Category

In total there are 286 communities in the British National Vegetation Classification. They are grouped into the following major categories:

• Woodland and scrub communities (25 communities, prefixed with the letter "W" — 19 classed as woodland, four as scrub and two as 'underscrub')
• Mires (38 communities, prefixed "M")
• Heaths (22 communities, prefixed "H")
• Mesotrophic grasslands (13 communities, prefixed "MG")
• Calcicolous grasslands (14 communities, prefixed "CG")
• Calcifugous grasslands and montane communities (21 communities, prefixed "U")
• Aquatic communities (24 communities, prefixed "A")
• Swamps and tall-herb fens (28 communities, prefixed "S")
• Salt-marsh communities (28 communities, prefixed "SM")
• Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities (19 communities, prefixed "SD" — one shingle, two strandline and 16 sand-dune communities)
• Maritime cliff communities (12 communities, prefixed "MC")
• Vegetation of open habitats (42 communities, prefixed "OV")

A full list of these communities, grouped into the above categories, can be found at List of plant communities in the British National Vegetation Classification.