grass, blood-red geranium, bearberry, stemless thistle, mountain sedge etc. The moss layer is fragmentary. Tüüpilised alusmetsa taimed on kadakad; alustaimestikus: 1 lubikas, verev kurereha, leesikas, varretu keelikrohi, metstarn jne. Samblarinne on katkendlik. The small reed (Calamagrostis) alvar site type is widespread on thin (10 ...30 centimetres) dry gravelly soils with limestone subsoil which are rich in humus. Kastiku loopealne kasvukohatüüp on laialdaselt levinud õhukesel (10...30 sentimeetrit) kuival kruusasel või lubjakivise alusmulla kihiga mullal, mis on huumuserikas. Besides the gravelly soils this site type may sometimes occupy also the grit soils, although less frequently. Peale kruusase mulla võib seda kasvukohatüüpi mõnikord leida ränkmuldadel, kuigi harva (vähem sageli).
corkscrew tails. The tails were not looped over, but stuck out from the body like a normal cat's tail while looking like they'd been wrapped around something to make them spiral! In Britain, one curly-tailed cat has achieved fame with South Ribble Pet Cat Club. Raffles is a white semi-longhair born in June 1998 and homed via a cat shelter in Oldham. When sitting, his tail forms a curl behind him. Another British curly tail is Sprocket found at Spaghetti Junction (Gravelly Hill motorway interchange in the Midlands). She was taken to Erdington Cat Rescue and it seemed that some prospective adopters didn't want her because she had a curly tail and it was perceived as a deformity or health problem. Since the breeding programme for the American Ringtail began, reports of curly tailed cats have come in from around the world, indicating that it is not as rare as previously claimed and that there might be several different genes involved