Gynge & Möckelmossen - alvar flora and resting cranes
Anyone who travels along the classic road between Resmo and Stenåsa encounters a magnificent Alvar landscape. Perhaps Gynge and Mysinge elves will be the first contact with Stora Alvaret's both barren and rare beauty.
Swing elves
Gynge elves have traditionally been worked together by cattle, sheep and horses. Periodically, the area has been ungrazed, but now grazing has resumed and bushes have been cleared. Here there is an abundant occurrence of mountain crab, small sand lily, mountain carnation, woolly buttercup and soapwort. At Gynge alvar you will find some of the most individual orchid premises on Stora Alvaret. St. Peter's keys and Adam and Eve are most common, but the rare purple knipprot also occurs.
Cozy elves
Cozy elves are well established through sheep work. This is how treeless most of Stora Alvaret was until the 1960s. The vegetation is dominated by thin soils of weathered gravel, so-called sheep fescue, but here there are also alluvial fields and wet meadows. Sheep's fescue and the unique for Öland bow fescue occur abundantly, as well as ax veronika, field weedel, bride's bread, and cat's foot. The Öland stoke belongs on the wet meadows, as does the one on the drylands.
Möckelmossen
Möckelmossen, Alvar's largest lake, is unique because it has never been dug out. The bog holds water all year round, but the area changes greatly between autumn rain, snowmelt and summer drought. In the autumn, the marsh is a resting and roosting place for thousands of cranes. In the bog, among others, laughing gulls, greater sandpipers, robins, and great sparrows nest. In winter, after a few nights of cold weather, Möckelmossen becomes an excellent skating rink. Many are amazed that they see pike swimming under the ice.
Gynge elves have traditionally been worked together by cattle, sheep and horses. Periodically, the area has been ungrazed, but now grazing has resumed and bushes have been cleared. Here there is an abundant occurrence of mountain crab, small sand lily, mountain carnation, woolly buttercup and soapwort. At Gynge alvar you will find some of the most individual orchid premises on Stora Alvaret. St. Peter's keys and Adam and Eve are most common, but the rare purple knipprot also occurs.
Cozy elves
Cozy elves are well established through sheep work. This is how treeless most of Stora Alvaret was until the 1960s. The vegetation is dominated by thin soils of weathered gravel, so-called sheep fescue, but here there are also alluvial fields and wet meadows. Sheep's fescue and the unique for Öland bow fescue occur abundantly, as well as ax veronika, field weedel, bride's bread, and cat's foot. The Öland stoke belongs on the wet meadows, as does the one on the drylands.
Möckelmossen
Möckelmossen, Alvar's largest lake, is unique because it has never been dug out. The bog holds water all year round, but the area changes greatly between autumn rain, snowmelt and summer drought. In the autumn, the marsh is a resting and roosting place for thousands of cranes. In the bog, among others, laughing gulls, greater sandpipers, robins, and great sparrows nest. In winter, after a few nights of cold weather, Möckelmossen becomes an excellent skating rink. Many are amazed that they see pike swimming under the ice.