page_title: Kashubian Lake District
section_title: Flora
hierarchical_section_title: Kashubian Lake District / Nature / Flora
caption_attribution_description: Cave nearby Lubygość lake
context_page_description: Kashubian Lake District is a mesoregion part of the Eastern Lake District macroregion, the northernmost of all Pomeranian lake districts. Nearly of the lakes lie at a height from 149 to 216 metres above sea level. The mesoregion is largely populated by Kashubians, from which the name of the region originates. However, because Kashubians also live in the nearby mesoregions, the alternative name for the lake district is the Kartuskie Lake District.
context_section_description: In terms of geo-botanical classification, the Kashubian Lake District is part of the Pomeranian Lake District in composition with the Kartuski Region. The afforestation rate of the lake district of the Kashubian is quite significant in the comparison to neighbouring mesoregions; apart from the Tuchola Forest. Similarly as in other mesoregions of north-western Poland, lowland beech woods are universal in Pomeranian varieties – fertile and sour; and by the Lake Ostrzycki there are three described types of the Kashubian variety of stenothermic beech wood. The forests in the region are dense. The dominating species of trees, is the European beech (Fagus silvatica), oaks (Quercus robur and Quercus sessilis), hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) and small leaved lime (Tilia cordata). In places, there are riparian species forests in which the lofty ash tree is dominating (Fraxinus exelsior), sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) and alder trees (Alnus incana and Alnus glutinosa). Among coniferous trees, the dominating is the Scots pine (Pinus silvestris) and the Norwegian spruce (Picea excelsa), in addition, the last of these kinds appearing in the region outside their natural range, mainly coming from fixing made by man. Forests are covering mainly terrain which is too difficult for farming, for example: hills, river valleys and places in which the soil is too weak for farming.
caption: Beech nearby the Lake Lubogoszcz
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