It favours damp places among boulders in scrubby areas, and in Galicia, it is found in low-level woodlands.

[1] It is a cold-resistant species, often found above the tree line in areas where the winters are long and the summers wet or misty.

The eggs, laid by sexually mature females under stones or in other concealed locations, are about 10 to 15 mm (0.39 to 0.59 in) long.

[5] A 2008 field study found females mate with males with more green on their bodies.

[4] Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Iberolacerta.