Kráľovská lúka is a nature monument in the Slovak municipality of Bodíky in the

Dunajská Streda District Dunajská Streda District ( Slovak: ''Okres Dunajská Streda'', Hungarian: ''Dunaszerdahelyi járás'') is a district in the Trnava Region of western Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was mostly part of the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Pozs ...

. The nature reserve covers an area of 32.4 ha of the Danube floodplain area. It has a protection level of 5 under the Slovak nature protection system. The nature reserve is part of the

Dunajské luhy Protected Landscape Area Dunajské luhy Protected Landscape Area (; verbatim: Danube Floodplains PLA) is one of the youngest of the 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia. The Landscape Area consists of five separate parts in the Danube Lowland, stretching from Bratis ...

Description

The nature monument is formed by a dead branch of the Danube with a stands of typical floodplain forests. The water, swamp and meadow biotopes give home to rare species of flora including the

Nymphaea alba ''Nymphaea alba'', the white waterlily, European white water lily or white nenuphar , is an aquatic flowering plant in the family Nymphaeaceae. It is native to North Africa, temperate Asia, Europe and tropical Asia (Jammu and Kashmir). Since '' ...

and the

Galanthus nivalis ''Galanthus nivalis'', the snowdrop or common snowdrop, is the best-known and most widespread of the 20 species in its genus, ''Galanthus''. Snowdrops are among the first bulbs to bloom in spring and can form impressive carpets of white in areas ...

References

Geography of Trnava Region Protected areas of Slovakia {{Europe-protected-area-stub