important plant areas in central and eastern europe - Plantlife

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Section 5
DANA TURONOVA
Krkonos˘e IPA (Giant Mountains).
The highest Czech Mountains (up to 1,602 m) bear the impacts of Pleistocene glaciation
and host interesting sub-alpine and alpine plant communities, glacial relicts (Rubus
chamaemorus), and local endemics (Campanula bohemica, Pedicularis sudetica, Sorbus
sudetica).Their isolated mountain tundra formations qualify them as ‘an Arctic island in
central Europe’.This was the first national park in the Czech Republic (established in
1963), and includes the very valuable, coherent, upper zones of sub-alpine and alpine
vegetation, peat-bogs, dwarf pine stands, mountain meadows and adjacent montane
spruce and mixed forests.
DANA TURONOVA
Pavlovské vrchy IPA (Pavlov Hills)
This site is an upland area of steep rocky limestone hills dominating the South-Moravian
landscape (up to 550 m). Here, in the Pannonic zone and in the warmest region of the
Czech Republic, rich plant communities of rock steppes, dry grasslands, forest steppes
and thermophilous oakwoods have developed and been preserved.The flora contains
many relict species as well as species on the boundaries of their geographical range.The
site contains the Criterion A species Iris humilis subsp. arenaria, Dianthus lumnitzeri, and
Pulsatilla grandis (shown above).
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