The nature reserve Grady nad Lindą - Rezerwat przyrody Grądy nad Lindą

The nature reserve Grady nad Lindą - floristic, landscape and forest nature reserve in Poland, in voivodeship of Lodz, in you will say Zgierz, in Zgierz commune, in the Grotniki Forest District, in the mesoregion Upland Grace. Area: 55.83 ha Established: 1997

Geographic coordinates: 51 ° 52′30 ″ N 19 ° 20′00 ″ E

The purpose of protection is to preserve, for scientific, didactic and landscape reasons, a part of the Linda River, its tributary and springs, as well as oak-hornbeam forests and riparian forests ash-alder trees about the features of natural forests. The subject of protection is also a peat bog. The complex of water springs and exudates is located at the foot of the hill, there are numerous pools, sometimes with bog vegetation, and this is the main attraction of the reserve.

The area is covered with a forest which is estimated to be about 130 years old. There are: pedunculate oak, Norway spruce, sycamore, ash, small-leaved linden and elm.

The most valuable specimens of the undergrowth include: laurel wilczelko, snake-mord, a whorl and the orchid - ovoid.

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