In this study Gölardı (Terme/Samsun) Wildlife Protecting Area vegetation was investigated based on the traditional Braun-Blanquet method, and associations were identified and classified. The syntaxonomic scheme is as follows:

Ammophiletea Br.-Bl. & Tüxen ex Westhoff, Dijk & Passchier 1946

Ammophiletalia Br.-Bl. 1933

Ammophilion australis Br.-Bl. 1921 corr. Rivas-Martínez, Costa & Izco in Rivas-Martínez, Lousã, T.E. Díaz, Fernández-González & J.C. Costa 1990

1-Eryngio maritimi-Pancratietum maritimi Çakan et al. 2003

2-Verbasco thapsus - Hippophaetum caucasicae (Kılınç and Özkanca 1991) nom. novum

Phragmito-Magnocaricetea Klika in Klika et Novák 1941

Phragmitetalia Koch 1926

3-Rumici hydrolapathum - Sparganietum neglectum ass. nova

Molinio-Arrhenatheretea R. Tx. 1937

Plantaginetalia majoris Tüxen & Preising in Tüxen 1950

Trifolio fragiferi-Cynodontion dactyli Br.-Bl. & O. Bolòs 1958

4-Samolo valerandi - Juncetum acuti ass. nova

Salici purpureae - Populetea nigrae Rivas-Martínez, Fernández González, Loidi, Lousã et Penas 2001

Populetalia albae Br.-Bl. ex Tchou 1948

5-Pterocaryo fraxinifoliae - Alnetum barbatae (Quézel, Barbéro et Akman 1980) nom. mutatum

6- Platanthero chloranthae - Fraxinetum oxycarpae ass. nova

Querco-Fagetea Br.-Bl. et Vlieger in Vlieger 1937

Rhododendro pontici-Fagetalia orientalis Quézel, Barbéro & Akman 1980

Castaneo sativae-Carpinion orientalis Quézel, Barbéro & Akman 1980

7-Sambuco nigrae - Carpinetum betuli ass. nova