The linden reserve - meadows and flowering linden.

Linden is a type of wood that had a greater distribution in our country during warmer periods, especially during the Bronze Age. Many linden trees, ashes and oaks in the area are very old and ash and linden bear traces of earlier pruning, deciduous extraction. The oaks have large crowns, which shows that they once grew in open landscape.

In the Linden Reserve there are hay meadows with noble deciduous trees and a species-rich flora. The meadows have the typical appearance of Öland with a mixture of completely open spaces and in between narrow curtains of trees and bushes. In early summer and summer, you can experience a lovely floral splendor of cowslip, St. Per's keys, St. John's keys, quail grass, hay rattle, crosshair, honeysuckle and violet.

In the deciduous meadows, many birds and bats thrive that depend on old, coarse deciduous trees with holes in them. Here you will find the unusual collared flycatcher and the rare species of fringe bat and troll bat.

Source: Excursion guide by the County Administrative Board of Kalmar County