Fivehead Arable Fields
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Fivehead Arable Fields is a 10.3 hectare
(25.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Fivehead
in Somerset
, notified in 1990.
This site has one of the most important assemblages of arable weeds in Britain, several of which are now nationally rare or scarce. There is a large population of the nationally rare Broad-fruited Cornsalad
(Valerianella rimosa).
Hectare
The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...
(25.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Fivehead
Fivehead
Fivehead is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the Fivehead River, miles east of Taunton in the South Somerset district...
in Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, notified in 1990.
This site has one of the most important assemblages of arable weeds in Britain, several of which are now nationally rare or scarce. There is a large population of the nationally rare Broad-fruited Cornsalad
Corn salad
Corn salad is a small dicot annual plant of the family Valerianaceae...
(Valerianella rimosa).