In Western Europe, this habitat type includes a wide variety of dune habitats: stagnant water bodies, pre-vegetated areas, patches of minerotrophic fens, wet meadows (often with short willows, see habitat type 2170), sedge shrubs, and club-rush beds. This diversity of habitats also results in extremely diverse vegetation. In Estonia, this habitat type should also include the black alder marshes...

This habitat type includes wet depressions between dunes in Western Europe that are inhabited by creeping willow communities. As the creeping willow is rare in Estonia as a pure species – its hybrid with the rosemary-leaved willow is more common –, it is not easy to distinguish this habitat type in nature. Such depressions between the dunes, where communities of creeping willow and its prostrate...

Coastal dunes fixed and leached (washed out) with permanent vegetation, which are mainly covered by crowberry. There are usually no trees or shrubs, while in some places, there are a few stunted pines and junipers. This habitat type has similar vegetation to that of dry sand heaths (2320). The two are mainly distinguished by their position on the landscape: the habitat type in question occurs on...

The later stage of development of the coastal dunes, following the two previous habitat types (2110 and 2120): plants and lichens have fixed the sand in place, and the dunes are covered with permanent vegetation. The more or less merged community resembling a heath meadow consists of grasses and mosses, with some lichens and a single pine here and there. Fixed coastal dunes can be found on the...

The most seaward, shifting chain of the dune system (sometimes several chains) – a natural extension to the embryonic shifting dunes (2110). Compared to the latter, there are more plants and they form patchy primary vegetation communities. Shifting dunes can be found in the hinterland of sandy shores, especially on the islands of Western Estonia, on the coasts of Lääne County, Pärnu County, and...