Chasewater Heaths
protected area in Staffordshire, England
Chasewater and the Southern Staffordshire Coalfield Heaths is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Staffordshire, England. It is located between Brownhills and Hednesford. The protected area includes Brownhills Common and the Chasewater Reservoir. It also includes Biddulph's Pool and No Man's Bank.
Biology
Chasewater and the Southern Staffordshire Coalfield Heaths is a protected area because of the vegetation types present: wet heath, dry heath, fens and oligotrophic pools.
Moss species in dry heathland include Sphagnum fallax, Sphagnum palustre, Sphagnum papillosum and Sphagnum capillifolium.
Plant species in the fens include round-leaved sundew and early marsh orchid. A spring has become established in the minerals deposited on the north shore of Chasewater Reservoir that supports a fen with plants including sea club-rush, marsh arrow-grass and the nationally scarce round-leaved wintergreen. Fen plants in this protected area also include tubular water-dropwort.
The sand and gravels around Chasewater Reservoir support plants including floating water-plantain, orange foxtail and golden dock.
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