Throughout much of its British range it is associated with dry sandy heathland, but in Norfolk it occurs on chalk-heath (M. Edwards, pers. comm.), and on Gower (West Glamorgan) it is found on coastal sand dunes (Hallett, 1928, and personal observation).(GB).
Sandy areas, typical of inland mobile dunes, and sandy heathland (DE).
Stabilised coastal sand dunes (ES).
Sandy biotopes (PL)