Acta Scientiarum Polonorum

Abstract: City parks play the main role of leisure and recreation for citizens, but not without significance is their role in ecological structure. The priority in maintaining the parks is their cultural values, historical material and condition dendroflora. Ground cover is usually being neglected, but as shown in the study carried out in Lublin, regardless of the size and location, it has the most synantropic character and actions being undertaken do not improve the natural values and aesthetics. The ground cover of Lublin parks contains 174 species, but only in two of them (Saxon, Academic) the number exceeded 100 species. The dominant species are trampled gardens or transitory forms similar to meadow, synantropic and shrubs. Clearly there is a lack of any references of ground cover to the forest communities.