This association is characterized by herbaceous lianas such as Calystegia sepium. Cucubalus baccifer, Cuscuta europaea, Fallopia dumetorum and Humulus lupulus. It occurs on the fringes of floodplain forests and scrub, on the banks of rivers, oxbows and alluvial pools, and on forest clearings in river floodplains. Habitats are usually partially shaded, with wet, loamy-sandy to clayey soils rich in nutrients. They can be temporarily flooded. In the Czech Republic Cuscuto-Calystegietum occurs mainly in lowland and colline areas.