Gotlands län
Important habitats in the Baltic Sea This particular stretch of coastline is home to three of the Baltic Sea's five so-called habitat-forming species. These are bladderwrack, blue mussels and red algae. Habitat-forming means that they create habitats for ot…
The path initially follows an old road that is already marked on the surveyor's map from 1698 and is called Enewätsgatan. There are a couple of small yews along the fence to the right. Common herbs along the path up to station 2 are daisy, buttercup, bloodw…
We have now passed a wide gravel embankment and come down into a depression with open ground. The area, called Ole's meadow or Ainvätar by the locals, was previously meadowland and you can clearly see that most of the old ash trees growing in the vicinity b…
We will now soon reach the northern part of Rövätar. Here you can make the first acquaintance with typical spring marsh plants such as axag, water primrose (blue flowers), mountain primrose (white flowers), mayweed, marsh lily and greater willowherb (growin…
In this area, the soil layers are dominated by bleach, which is a highly calcareous soil that develops on moist ground. It occurs throughout the open area but is most evident in the former trackway to the left of the path. Forest growth is very slow on thes…
Even the legendary nature conservationist Rutger Sernander felt in the 1940s that the large yew stand at Kallgatburg should be protected. The yews here are so dense that very little light penetrates to the ground. As a result, the undergrowth is extremely s…
Stigen följer nu en grusvall som bildats av Ancylussjön, en föregångare till dagens Östersjön. Vallen ligger ca 35 m över den nuvarande havsytan. På vallen gick i äldre tider landsvägen mellan Visby och Bunge, och det är egentligen den vägen som givit namn…
Old oaks are home to many species of wood-boring insects that gnaw their way through the wood. This old oak can be around 400 years old, and for half of its life it can serve as a home for various rare insect species.
On both sides of the footbridge grows bloodroot, a plant that in our country only occurs on eastern Gotland. The flowers of the bloodroot are gathered in a dense, rounded spike. It has no petals, and the red of the flower consists of the bracts. Bloodroot b…
The difficulty of transporting the timber has meant that forests on bog islands have not usually been felled, but left untouched. It has therefore been able to grow very old. This pine tree was a small seedling in 1707, when Charles XII was king of Sweden,…
To the left of the walkway grows the greater willowherb, one of our country's few 'carnivorous' plants. Small insects that land on the leaves get stuck on the red, sticky glandular hairs along the edges of the greenish-yellow leaves. Once an insect is stuck…
Här längs stigens östra sida kan man, förutom de källkärrsväxter vi stiftat bekantskap med tidigare under vandringen, se ett par nya arter. Den ena är trubbtåg, ett halvgräs som i Sverige bara förekommer i kalkkärr på Gotland och några få platser i Skåne. D…
Stigen följer här en bäckfåra som under snösmältningen är fylld av vatten men under sommaren oftast är helt torrlagd. Vattnet kommer från en källa (en spricka i berggrunden) som är belägen nära den västra reservatsgränsen. Markvegetationen är ganska sparsam…
