Burderop Wood
Burderop Wood (grid reference SU165810) is a 48.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971.9pp
The site contains wet ash-maple and acid pedunculate oak-hazel-ash woodland, and its notification as an SSSI due to this, particular richness of the associated .
Ash is the most widespread tree in the wood, but many mature oaks also occur. Present in the wood's ground flora are the nationally scarce spiked star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum pyrenaicum), and other species include herb-paris (Paris quadrifolia), broad-leaved helleborine (Epipactis helleborine), woodruff (Galium odoratum), wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa), sanicle (Sanicula europaea) and moschatel (Adoxa moschatellina).
Sources[]
- English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 8 August 2006)
External links[]
- English Nature website (SSSI information)
Categories:
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1971
- English Site of Special Scientific Interest stubs
- Wiltshire geography stubs