page_title: Garrigue
section_title: Habitat and vegetation
hierarchical_section_title: Garrigue / Habitat and vegetation
caption_attribution_description: Cistus creticus ssp. corsicus and Senecio bicolor in the garrigue of Agriates, Corsica.
context_page_description: Garrigue or phrygana is a type of low, soft-leaved scrubland ecoregion and plant community in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.
  It is found on limestone soils in southern France and around the Mediterranean Basin, generally near the seacoast where the moderated Mediterranean climate provides annual summer drought.
  The term has also found its way into haute cuisine, suggestive of the resinous flavours of a garrigue shrubland.
context_section_description: UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre described garrigue as "discontinuous bushy associations of the Mediterranean calcareous plateaus, which have relatively alkaline soils. It is often composed of kermes oak, lavender, thyme, and white cistus. There may be a few isolated trees."
  Garrigue is discontinuous with widely spaced bush associations with open spaces, and is often extensive. It is associated with limestone and base rich soils, and calcium associated plants.
  Aside from dense thickets of kermes oak that punctuate the garrigue landscape, juniper and stunted holm oaks are the typical trees; aromatic lime-tolerant shrubs such as lavender, sage, rosemary, wild thyme and Artemisia are common garrigue plants.
caption: Cistus and Senecio are characteristic plants of the garrigue.
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