Lauhanvuori National Park () is a
national park
A national park is a nature park designated for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance. It is an area of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that is protecte ...
in the
Southern Ostrobothnia
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region of
Finland
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, on the border of
Kauhajoki and
Isojoki. It was established in 1982 and covers .
The park is characterized by its
pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.
''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...
forestland,
spring brooks, and swamps.
Nature
Mountain
The Lauhanvuori mountain is a high
moraine
A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and Rock (geology), rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a gla ...
mountain and one of the highest points in Western Finland. The summit area was uncovered 9500
BCE when the glacier retreated, and it has never been under the water. Indeed, it was an island in the middle of the
Ancylus Lake.
Flora and fauna
The summit of Lauhanvuori is lusher than its surroundings due to not having been under the sea and thus having retained its loose soil and nutrients. The hillsides are barren and infertile.
Cranes and
capercaillies can be heard in the bogs during summertime. The
willow grouse also inhabits the bogs.
The park also has a hectare of
fen, where ''
Succisa pratensis'',
brown beak-sedge,
carnation sedge,
moor rush,
Scottish asphodel, and many rare
moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular plant, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic phylum, division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryo ...
es grow. Lauhanvuori is the southernmost habitat of the Scottish asphodel.
See also
*
List of national parks of Finland
*
Protected areas of Finland
References
External links
Outdoors.fi – Lauhanvuori National Park*
Protected areas established in 1982
Geography of South Ostrobothnia
Tourist attractions in South Ostrobothnia
1982 establishments in Finland
National parks of Finland
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