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Cae Pwll y Bo nature reserve
Cae Pwll y Bo Nature Reserve
This small damp meadow is known for its spectacular display of globeflowers.
The reserve is all that remains of a much larger field that was originally part of Pwll y Bo farm (Hobgoblin pool in Welsh).
What to look out for:
The globeflower is a member of the buttercup family and has beautiful, dense, yellow flowers. Over 1500 flowers have been counted here in early summer (new record of 2055 counted in June 2010) and this is possibly the largest remaining stand in mid Wales of this attractive plant. Elsewhere in Wales, its numbers have significantly decreased.
Other interesting flowers in the meadow include devil's-bit scabious and great burnet.. According to the "Doctrine of Signatures", believed in by ancient herbalists, the dark crimson flower heads of great burnet suggested blood, so for centuries this plant was used to staunch wounds and as a remedy for internal bleeding. Its Latin name sanguisorb means "blood absorbing". More recently, the root was peeled and used to treat burns.
Species and habitats
- Habitats
- Rush Pasture, Hedgerows
- Species
- Bank Vole, Blackbird, Bluebell, Bracken, Brown Hare, Chiffchaff, Cock's-foot, Common Frog, Common Toad, Dandelion, Devil's-bit Scabious, False Oat-grass, Field Vole, Great Burnet, Green-veined White, Knapweed, Lady-fern, Large Skipper, Long-tailed Tit, Male-fern, Marsh Tit, Meadow Brown, Meadow Vetchling, Meadowsweet, Mole, Norway Spruce, Orange-tip, Pheasant, Rabbit, Raven, Ringlet, Sky Lark, Small Skipper, Soft-rush, Song Thrush, Sorrel, Tormentil, Wild Angelica, Wood Anemone, Wren, Yorkshire-fog
Nearby nature reserves
- Vicarage Meadows
- 1.0 miles - Brecknock Wildlife Trust
- Poor Mans Wood
- 14.9 miles - The Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales
- Nant Melin
- 21.4 miles - The Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales
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