Riserva Naturale di Bosco Solivo

Besides Rio Norè, there are small watercourses and ponds that have not suffered from evident pollution and whose water regime has not been tampered. The most important area is situated in the north of Cascina Bassone, and consists of a pond nourished by surface water bearing layers. The pond is almost entirely silted up and houses a precious marsh flora which is worth a careful description.
The remaining stretches of free water are populated by bulbous rush (Juncus bulbosus), a very rare species in Italy. They are surrounded by sedge formations (Carex spp.), partly vegetating on typical peat bog banks covered with sphagnum (peat bog moss). In these banks there are rush species (Juncus spp.) and several specimens of White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba), another very rare marsh plant. In the areas less interested by water, groups of glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus) and some specimens of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) grow. The edges of the marsh are interested by typical Variegated Purple Moor Grass prairies (Molinia cerulea) and rush species.
The pond has a drainage channel, along which there is a Black Alder woodland (Alnus glutinosa) which turned swampy. In its undergrowth, some typical species vegetate: among them, the purple moor grass, the glossy buckthorn, sedges, wild blackberries (Rubus spp.), the spinulose woodfern (Dryopteris carthusiana) and the wood club rush (Scirpus sylvaticus).