Site Code
Country: United Kingdom
Central coordinates: 52.34552167o [52o 20' 43" North], -3.04972261o [3o 2' 59" West]
Administrative region: Wales (Radnorshire)
Area: 161 ha
Altitude: 60 - 365
Site Description
Outcropping along the eastern edge of Wales are some of the oldest rocks in Britain. Lying in the rain shadow of the Welsh mountains these rocks enjoy an unusual continental climate and support extraordinary rich assemblages of scarce flowering plants, such as the Radnor lily together with an assemblage of mosses, liverworts and lichens.
Botanical Significance
Noted for vascular plants assemblages of inland rock. As well as tiny pockets of soil on rock face ledges or cracks, areas of mosses on the rocks and the woodland edges all support unusual plants including spiked speedwell, sticky catch-fly, rock stonecrop, bloody crane’s-bill, common rock-rose, nationally rare mosses and liverworts and the Radnor Lily, this being its only known site in Britain.
Management guidance notes
Original IPA name: Stanner Rocks
Notes
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