Vegetation

The trees in the Riutta area are dominated by fir and pine. Birch, aspen, rowan and rowan are found among conifers, but there are no real hardwood forests in the area. The Riutta area is scattered with paths and roads in many places, but there is also a relatively natural forest in the area.

Riutta's ridge area is flat terrain with large differences in height: steep ridge slopes and swampy depressions alternate. The slopes of the ridges can be divided according to the direction of the sunlight into sunny and shaded slopes. Paisterinte are relatively dry growing areas south of the ridges. Paisterinte are pine-dominant dry-texture (VT) forests. Drought-tolerant plants that require plenty of light, such as heather, lingonberry, sedge, cat's paw, goldenrod and lichens thrive on them. In Riutta, the part of the ridge on the side of the Pyrkiva outdoor recreation house, along the Kormuntie road, is a hot spot.

The shady slopes of the ridges, on the other hand, are wetter than the slopes, and their trees are usually spruce. The forest type is mostly bilberry-type (MT) fresh canopy forest and grove-like cabbage-blueberry (OMT) canopy forest. Blueberries grow abundantly on the shaded slope. The grasses are typically cabbage, squirrel berry, forest star, nightshade, nightshade and Vanamo, and grasses, on the other hand, are sauces and forest sedge. There are shady slopes on the ridge of Riutta on the southwest and west sides of Riuttanlukko and on the lower slopes of the suppi.