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National Botanic Garden of Latvia

Kārlis Dambrāns · CC BY 2.0

34% trees around it and 503 species recorded.

62Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungi

  • trees within 3 km34%
  • wild within 10 km91%
  • species recorded503

The forest around

34% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 38%Grassland 43%Water 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 18%Trees 33%Grassland 40%Wetland 2%Water 12%Bare ground 1%Cropland 4%Built-up 8%Trees 38%Grassland 30%Wetland 1%Water 22%Bare ground 0%Cropland 6%Built-up 3%Trees 57%Grassland 29%Wetland 0%Water 6%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 5%34%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km38%
  • 1–3 km33%
  • 3–6 km38%
  • 6–10 km57%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees33%
  • Grassland40%
  • Wetland2%
  • Water12%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up8%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

503 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria508 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lysimachia davurica
Lysimachia davuricaLysimachia davurica45 recordsQwert1234 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Siberian hazelnut
Siberian hazelnutCorylus heterophylla42 recordsDalgial · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eurasian Aspen
Eurasian AspenPopulus tremula38 recordsØyvind Holmstad · CC BY-SA 4.0
Annual Meadow Grass
Annual Meadow GrassPoa annua33 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 10:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cow Parsley
Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris32 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
False Oat-grass
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius25 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Quercus pyrenaica
Quercus pyrenaicaQuercus pyrenaica19 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Deepblue honeysuckle
Deepblue honeysuckleLonicera caerulea11 recordsOpioła Jerzy (Poland) · CC BY 2.5
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria10 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Running oak
Running oakQuercus pumila7 recordsHomer Edward Price · CC BY 2.0
Sweet mock orange
Sweet mock orangePhiladelphus coronarius5 recordsMatasg · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

62out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 34%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 91%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 503Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in June.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-3°-7°59 mm
  2. Feb-2°-8°48 mm
  3. Mar2°-4°46 mm
  4. Apr9°1°48 mm
  5. May16°7°52 mm
  6. Jun19°11°76 mm
  7. Jul22°14°82 mm
  8. Aug21°14°80 mm
  9. Sep16°9°59 mm
  10. Oct9°4°78 mm
  11. Nov4°1°74 mm
  12. Dec0°-4°63 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

National Botanic Garden of Latvia.

Botanic garden in Latvia

National Botanic Garden of Latvia is an arboretum in Latvia.

Seen from space, 34% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 91% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

503 species have been recorded around it: 90 plants, 358 fungi, 55 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bishop's goutweed, Lysimachia davurica and Siberian hazelnut.

The best time to walk is in June.

National Botanic Garden
Kārlis Dambrāns · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

National Botanic Garden of Latvia seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmSvētā Jēkaba ceļš (Rīga-Skaistkalne) 1 etaps: Rīga – Salaspils, Svētā Jēkaba ceļš (Rīga-Skaistkalne) 2 etaps: Salaspils – Ogre, Knuta Skujenieka Dzejas pastaiga
  • 6named and notable trees within 6 kmSaulkalnes vītols, Budeskalnu ozols, Līvzemes ozols and 3 more
  • 10picnic sites within 4 km
  • 12shelters and huts within 6 kmDaugmale and 11 more
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmKurmīškalns and 5 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 154car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCamping, Kempings Zanzibara
  • 19places to stay within 10 kmMartin, Malderi, Kolotilovka and 16 more
  • 10restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around National Botanic Garden of Latvia.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Dreiliņkalns35 m · 13 kmDzegužkalns20 kmSudrabkalniņš22 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Riga Reservoir36 km² · 4.9 kmMašēnu ezers0.2 km² · 12 kmJugla Lake4.6 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Baldone ObservatoryBortle 3 · 11 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Building for the dendrological research. National botanical garden Latvia
Kasparoviča · CC0
Entrance to the National Botanical Garden of Latvia , Miera 1, Salaspils
Kasparoviča · CC0
National Botanic Garden (2)
Kārlis Dambrāns · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

National Botanic Garden of Latvia

Latvia

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 503Species

Šmerlis

Latvia · 15 km

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 53%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 259Species

See the guide

Biķernieki Forest

Latvia · 14 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 284Species

See the guide

Botanical Garden of the University of Latvia

Latvia · 20 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 93Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5926428) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species20,818 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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