Świętochłowice is a town located in a central part of Katowice conurbation (Silesian Voivodeship). The town has been industrially and anthropogenicaly changed, and a large area of it has been turned to postindustrial waste yard. A rich population of Epipactis palustris was discovered in 2001, in a north-westen part of the Świętochłowice district - Chropaczów, on a zinc and colliery heap. The population of Epipactis is numerous and of expanding tendencies.