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Site code
PLH 140013
English name:
Lucynowsko-Mostowieckie Dunes
Niziny Srodkowopolskie
Wydmy Lucynowsko-Mostowieckie
Area description
Wydmy Lucynowsko-Mostowieckie refuge is a Site of Community Importance with the area of 435.2 ha, located in mazowieckie voivodeship. The area of the refuge has a very diverse relief and it encompasses complex of dunes overgrown by sand grass communities, heaths and different conifer forest communities.

Habitats from Appendix I of Habitats Directive:

  • European dry heaths,
  • Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands.

The fire in 1993 had damaged significant part of the forests, and at the same time caused very strong expansion of bearberry which one piece have a surface of 100-200 square meters. This stand can be numbered among the biggest known in Poland.
Among the flora of the refuge there were verified 348 species of vascular plants. The stand of spotted orchid is worth seeing. About 15% of the area is use as agricultural lands.

(mag)