Bransbury Common | |
Aos: | Hampshire |
Interest: | Biological |
Area: | 158.6ha |
Notifydate: | 1984 |
Map: | Magic Map |
Bransbury Common is a 158.6abbr=offNaNabbr=off biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Andover in Hampshire.[1] [2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I.[3]
This site has two different habitats. The soil of the common is peat over gravel, and the dominant plants are purple moor-grass and greater tussock-sedge. There is also a former water meadow, which has flowering plants including lady's smock, marsh marigold and early marsh-orchid.[4]
. Derek . Ratcliffe . A Nature Conservation Review. 2 . 128–29 . Derek Ratcliffe . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK . 1977. 0521-21403-3 .