Grey dunes are fixed, stable sand dunes that are covered by a continuous layer of herbaceous vegetation. These dunes are typically located 50–100 meters from the ocean shore and are found on the landward side of foredunes (also known as yellow dunes).

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These are also known as grey dunes and can still have sand blowing through them from blowouts, the semi-fixed dunes or even from the beach on a really windy day! Mature dunes are the furthest away from the beach, are the oldest dunes in sand dune system and …

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‘Grey dune’ is the most extensive vegetation community and is dominated by marram Ammophila arenaria and red fescue Festuca rubra. Short sward communities within this are characterised by a...

Young dunes are called yellow dunes and dunes which have high humus content are called grey dunes. Leaching occurs on the dunes, washing humus into the slacks, and the slacks may be much more developed than the exposed tops of the dunes.

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Grey-green lichens (Peltigera, Cladonia) will colonize the dune extensively, combining with accumulating humus to give the dune sand a characteristic dirty grey colour. Mosses such as Bryum and Sand-dune Screw-moss, Tortula ruraliformis , also colonize the dunes.