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Forest communities of the Złotoryjskie Foothills (Pogórze Złotoryjskie). Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica Polonica 8: 173–218. Kraków. PL ISSN 1640 629X. ABRSTRACT: The Złotoryjskie Foothills is a range of hills with unusually diverse geology and geomorphology, situated in the eastern part of the Kaczawskie Foothills (Western Sudety Mts). Forests occupy c. 60% of the investigated area. They are mostly natural deciduous forests, represented by oak forests, marshy, oak hornbeam, sycamore and beech forests. Numerous fragments of submontane and thermophilous oak woods (Luzulo Quercetum genistetosum, Sorbo torminalis Quercetum) and floristically diverse maple lime forests (Aceri platanoidis Tilietum platyphylli) are of special interest, since they are rare communities in Poland. The paper presents the results of floristic and phytosociological analysis as well as cartographical distribution of forest communities in relation to the soil types.