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The flora of Stupnik and its surroundings (northwest Croatia)

Stupnik is located in the northwest Croatia, 10 km southwest from the city of Zagreb. The total surface of the researched area is 19.2 km2 and it is bordered with the &laquo ; Stara Karlovačka&raquo ; road, railway Zagreb-Rijeka and motorway Zagreb-Karlovac. The area includes villages Gornji Stupnik and Donji Stupnik, as well as smaller parts of the village Kalinovica and Lučko. According to the climate classification by Koppen, researched area belongs to the temperate C climate (warm-temperate rainy climate). The area has been floristically researched in the period of two years (2002 and 2003) during vegetational seasons. According to these researches 454 taxa of higher plants from 81 families were found. The most abundant families are Asteraceae s.l. (11.5%), Poaceae (8.4%), Fabaceae (5.9%), Lamiaceae (5.7%) and Rosaceae (4.6%). In the life form spectrum hemicriptophyta are dominant (49%), therophyta are also numerous (24%), followed by phanerophyta (10.8%), geophyta (10.3%) and several chamaephyta (3.4%) and hydrophyta (2.5%). Phytogeographical analysis showed that Euroasiatic element is predominant, with 33.4% of taxa, widespread plants encompasses 27.1% taxa, Europaean plants 11.7%, Southeuropaean plants 9.8% and Cicrumholartic plants 7.4%. Middleeuropaean plants are represented with 3.7% of taxa, Easteuropaean-pontic plants with 0.9%, Atlantic with 0.4% and Illyrian-Balcan plants with 0.2% of taxa. Cultivated and adventive plants encompass 3.4% of taxa. Although there are no endemic taxa in the researched area, the floristical diversity is great, mostly because of its habitat diversity and human influence.

Flora; Stupnik; Croatia

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