Lecale Fens

The Lecale area in the south-east of Northern Ireland contains a number of inter-drumlin hollows with alkaline fen vegetation that is characteristic of the more undisturbed wetlands in the area. The vegetation is variable, but generally very species-rich, and includes  a number of vegetation types which is very rare in Northern Ireland. Some stands consist of tussocks of black bog-rush with scattered blunt-flowered rush and common reed. Smaller herbs, and rare mosses grow between the tussocks. A number of additional species occur which give the vegetation a distinctive character. Notably, these include lesser Water-parsnip, Slender Sedge, Lesser Tussock-sedge, Greater Tussock-Sedge, Great Fen-Sedge, Many-stalked Spike-rush, Knotted Pearlwort and Least Bur-reed .

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