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As a result of the floristic investigations of Mt. Sokolovica carried out between 1997 and 2000, 778 plant taxa belonging to 351 genera and 76 plant families were recorded. The phytogeographical analysis showed that this area can be characterized as submediterranean-central-european-pontic with domination of Submediterranean-Mediterranean chorological type (35.1%). The ecological analysis indicated that the flora of the investigated area is of hemicryptophyta type since the hemicryptophytes are represented with 49.5%, in the flora of Mt. Sokolovica. There are 21 endemic and endemorelic taxa in the flora of investigated area. Three plant species are included in the European Red Lists and 35 plant taxa are threatened in Mt. Sokolovica.