This is a low-growing vegetation type dominated by Tussilago farfara, which rapidly colonizes bare substrata via rhizome fragments moved with soil or wind-dispersed generative propagules. It is an early successional community typical of habitats with recently disturbed soil, such as bare places around construction sites, in quarries, on dumping sites, on roadsides and along railways. Soils are usually poor in nutrients, ranging from humid to dry and from loamy to skeletal. This vegetation type is common throughout the Czech Republic, occurring from the lowlands to mountain areas.