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SITE OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST: CITATION

 

ANGLESEY                                                                                        CORS BODEILIO                          

National Grid Reference:                 SH500775

 

Area:                                                  54 ha

 

Description:

 

Cors Bodeilio is a nationally important calcareous mire situated in a shallow valley between Pentraeth and Llangefni. The mire is supplied with base-rich water from the surrounding Carboniferous Limestone which has promoted the development of a range of rich-fen vegetation communities that now overlie a body of fen peat.

 

The structure of the vegetation varies in different sections of the valley mire and fen species including mainly great fen-sedge Cladium mariscus, black-bog rush Schoenus nigricans, blunt-flowered rush Juncus subnodulosus, common reed Phragmites communis, sweet gale Myrica gale and purple moor grass Molinia caerulea are dominant or co-dominant over large areas. Other sedge communities also occur and in places characteristic fen bryophyte carpets are well-developed. A notable feature of Cors Bodeilio is its rich orchid flora which includes the uncommon narrow-leaved marsh orchid Dactylorchis traunsteineri and fly orchid Ophrys insectifera growing here in Schoenus communities. The fen also supports a diverse invertebrate fauna with a variety of rare and uncommon species; it is particularly rich in Diptera (true flies), aquatic Coleoptera (beetles) and Lepidoptera (moths).

 

CCW manages part of this site as a National Nature Reserve.