Csombárd Meadow Wooded Pasture
Extending over approximately 50 hectares, this typical area of South-Transdanubia is located on the eastern border of Inner Somogy, between the villages Mezőcsokonya and Csombárd.
The natural vegetation cover of the plain located at an elevation of 143-153 m a.s.l. and having quicksand as bedrock, consists of different types of broadleaved forests. As a result of landscape use, some of the original forest associations have disappeared while others have transformed.
It is characterised on the one hand by the variability of wetland habitats (most of its typical species are associated with marsh and bog habitats), and on the other hand by the dry sandy grasslands on hummock tops, which have been managed for long, with many valuable protected species of invertebrate fauna that could survive due to permanent management in the past.
Among typical protected plants of the Csombárd Meadow one can encounter green-winged orchid (Orchis morio), common cotton-grass (Eriophorum angustifolium), greater tussock-sedge (Carex paniculata), black pasque-flower (Pulsatilla pratensis ssp. nigricans), early marsh orchid (Dactylorhiza incarnata), two subspecies of loose-flowered orchid (Orchis laxiflora ssp. palustris and Orchis laxiflora ssp. elegans), and bog-bean (Menyanthes trifoliata).
Declared to be protected: 26/2007. (VIII. 9.) KvVM decree.
Size of the protected area: 53.4 ha