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The reserve is located near the village of Dzierżysław in Głubczyce district, in the territory of Rudy Raciborskie forestry, on the south-western slope of Gipsowa Góra (285 m above sea level). Protection covers natural steppe vegetation communities, in which numerous rare plants of the Opole Voivodeship occur, such as rough alchemilla, sickle-leaved dianthus, common flax, Pannonian featherfoll, leafless elecampane, large-flowered globularia, lesser aster, baldachino-panicled mugwort, thin-leaved stonecrop, common celandine, and greater celandine. The Gipsowa Góra area was granted legal protection as early as 1935. Although the area underwent partial afforestation during World War II, the reserve was reactivated in 1957. Currently, in order to preserve this valuable meadow habitat, protective measures are being carried out: undesirable species are removed, including the giant hogweed from the Caucasus, which has become widespread in Poland due to human activity. The plants occurring on Gipsowa Góra are evidence of the steppe character of this region of the country in the distant past and proof of the long migration of species from the Mediterranean basin, as evidenced by the names of some of them -- Pannonian featherfoll, Bologna bellflower.
