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The main aim of this paper was to study the responses of mountain plants in relation to the time of snowmelt. Three mountain areas situated along an oceanic–continental gradient were selected as study sites, and the sample plots ranged from 182m below to 473m above the climatic forest limit. In total, 185 quadrats (2m×2m), stratified to include only oligotrophic and mesotrophic mountain vegetation...