last decades notable attention is paied to ecosystem functions and services. Functions and services provided by grasslands can be divided to productive and non-productive. Some functional characteristics of the vegetation can be used for the evaluation the state of provided ecosystem services. This paper is focused on evaluation of such ecological and socio-economical characteristics, which could be linked up with ecosystem services. Altogether 62 localities of grasslands in the area of Hodruša-Hámre municipality were characterized on the basis of six chosen characteristics: species richness and diversity, naturalness and synantropization, species vulnerability, forage quality and melliferous potential.