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7194 5. THE GOTTSUNDA TRAIL 7. THE HUSBY TRAIL . Juli 2019 5A FÅGELDAMMARNA (BIRD PONDS) 7A A COFFEE BREAK AT THE Collection folder Near the centre of town you can FYRISÅN RIVER enjoy these ponds in a wooded Take a coffee break near the river area. A long time ago, people and enjoy a calm moment in the LINNAEUS TRAILS believed that the liquid in the city. The yellow water lily has Illustratör: Emy Vu. hundreds of stamens. The root tormentil had a pain-relieving Yellow water lily IN UPPSALA Tormentil effect. Potentilla erecta was previously used as flour to be Nuphar lutea Blooms: June to August mixed into poor man’s bread Blooms: June to August Blacksta during years of famine. ret Eight trails to visit 7B BÄCKRAVIN (BROOK RAVINE) Styggkär vat 5B PREDIKSTOLEN reser Sit and listen to the babbling Natur In Linnaeus’s time, getting here sounds that come for the water was difficult, but the rare plants in this brook ravine. Here you’ll made the trek worthwhile. The find the sickle medick that common toothwort is a parasitic Långmossen Linnaeus first discovered on Walk in plant. Its roots have special or- väg 272 Gotland. The Swedish name gans that suck up nutrients from Sickle medick he chose for it meant hay seed. trees, especially hazel trees. The Linnaeus’s footsteps Medicago falcata This plant has tubers on its root, Broholm toothwort is colourless since it Blooms: July to September mot Uppsala which can fix nitrogen. can’t use sunlight as green plants Common toothwort HOME PAGE Örnsätra Lathraea squamaria are able to. 8. THE JUMKIL TRAIL Blooms: May More information on all eight Linnaeus Trails 8A THE BROOK AT ÖRNSÄTRA can be found at www.linnestigarna.se. Here Jumkils 6. THE HÅGA TRAIL At the brook ravine, people have you can find useful information and read more kyrka found false rune stone that some about the Linnaeus Trails. Håkansmossen Nybygget 6A ENGELSKA PARKEN believe were used as a joke during Skansberget Take a break amongst the big Linnaeus’s botanic excursions. THE LINNAEUS TRAILS Fornborg leafy trees in Engelska Parken. Have you seen the plant that’s Maintained and managed by the Municipality Wood cow-wheat is a semi-par- named after Linnaeus? He ad- of Uppsala. If you have any questions, please asitic plant that take nutrients mired the twinflower (Sw. Linné) contact us by telephone at 018–727 00 00 so much that he ordered a coffee from bushes and trees in order Wood cow-wheat Twinflower to make its green leaves and Melampyrum nemorosum serving set that depicted this Linnaea borealis Blooms: June to July colourful flowers. Blooms: June to July flower, all the way from China. PRACTICAL INFORMATION Ubby The Linnaeus Trails are primarily hiking 6B KING BJÖRN’S GRAVE MOUND 8B THE FOOTBRIDGE OVER trails, but certain sections are better to bike LÅGMOSSEN MARSH bodmossen Walk out to Hågahögen, on. See the map inside this folder. Regarding Fä at Naturreserv where Linnaeus took his This was the final destination of bus connections, please visit ul.se. students to see a great variety Linnaeus’s lecture series for his of plants. Brown knapweed students. The Swedish name of what is used for textile dying and is known in English as moor king results in a clear yellow colour. was named after King Charles XII by Olof Rudbeck, Sr. Linnaeus described Moor king In cooperation with Brown knapweed Pedicularis sceptrum- this species as stately, straight and Centaurea jacea carolinum The Linnaeus H istorical Society Walk in Linnaeus’s footsteps Blooms: July to August stiff. The plant is poisonous and Blooms: July to August semi-parasitic on other plants. The routes of the Linnaeus Trails are based on information found in historical documents. Uppsala Municipality expresses its appreciation to the Linnean Society of London, which has contributed the medallion for signs and folders. vä g m o t V ä n g e / J u m k il 1000m 500 0 DO YOU WANT TO BE AN THE DANMARK TRAIL – 16 KM 1. THE ANCIENT UPPSALA TRAIL 3. THE DANMARK TRAIL This is the most stately of the trails. Linnaeus followed EXPLORER FOR A DAY? it to take his students all the way out to his summer 1A OBSERVATION TOWER ON 3A NÅNTUNA GROVE home, Linnés Hammarby. TUNA RIDGE Linnaeus had his students find THE LINNAEUS TRAILS Thirty metres tall with a magnificent plants and insects in these woods. Visit Uppsala’s secret places and experience beautiful THE ULTUNA TRAIL – 7 KM view of Uppsala. St John’s wort was The poisonous cowslip was previously surroundings. Discover fascinating plants from Bike out and find beautiful views of the countryside previously used as an anti-depressant used as a diuretic and an expectorant. Linnaeus’s time, and relive history. near the Fyrisån River. Finish by walking over a and to give wine and aquavit an St. John’s wort It also gave a brown colour to snuff footbridge over the wetlands around the aromatic taste. Hypericum perforatum and aquavit. Cowslip Carl Linnaeus, who lived in the 18th century, is Blooms: July to September Sunnerstaviken Inlet. Primula veris known internationally as the Father of Taxonomy, Blooms: May to June THE GOTTSUNDA TRAIL - 8.3 KM and is often called Blomsterkungen (the Flower King) 1B THE FOOTBRIDGE TO SJÖDYN in Sweden. He was the first outdoor scholar, taking This trail is a good example of nature as a classroom, There is a fine footbridge here, 3B CLOSE TO LINNÉS HAMMARBY hundreds of his students on field trips. They walked and there was plenty here for Linnaeus’s students to surrounded by wetlands that This was Linnaeus’s summer together along eight trails that he called Hebationes learn. You will be walking through the Stadsskogen contain plants that cannot be home. Here he often walked with Upsaliensis, which are today known as the Linnaeus nature reserve and continuing into beautiful found in many other places. his dog, Pompe. Later in life, Trails. There they found new plants and animals. Hågadalen-Nåsten, the next nature reserve, which is The carnivorous round-leaved Linnaeus suffered from gout and Linnaeus introduced the species classification system noted for its unique flora. sundew attracts flying insects arthritis of the foot. In order to that is still in use today. THE HÅGA TRAIL – 5.6 KM with its red colour. This plant cure these troubling ailments, he Did you know that you can discover many plants was previously used as a cure for ate a bowl of wild strawberries from Linnaeus’s time in the centre of town? You warts. every day. Round-leaved sundew Wild strawberries begin this trail at Carolina Rediviva, and then Drosera rotundifolia Fragaria vesca continue out to Håga Valley and King Björn’s burial Blooms: June to July Blooms: May to July mound where you can find unique plants from long ago. 2. THE VAKSALA TRAIL 4. THE ULTUNA TRAIL THE HUSBY TRAIL – 16 KM 2A THE RÅBY PARK FOREST 4A THE VIEW FROM ULTUNA RIDGE Begin your exploration at the Fyrisån River, and Take along a picnic and coffee, From here you can enjoy a continue along a quiet brook ravine. The trail ends at and enjoy a quiet interlude in panoramic view of the country- Börje Church, from where you can try a forest loop. the woods. The poisonous Lily side that was formed after the Ice A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF EVERY TRAIL THE JUMKIL TRAIL – 4.7 KM of the Valley, used to be used to Age. The little harebell’s Latin This was the last field trip for the term Linnaeus make people sneeze, thus driving Lily of the Valley name means “round leaves”, THE ANCIENT UPPSALA TRAIL – 12 KM would take with his students. They travelled out to out evil forces from their body. Convallaria majalis and it spreads its seeds in late Bloom: May to July Harebell Begin in the Linnaeus Garden, where you can Jumkil’s Church with horse and carriage, but the summer and autumn. Campanula rotundifolia transport yourself back to the time of Linnaeus, in walk began out near Örnsätra and ended at the Blooms: June to September the 18th century. Continue along the river out to the Studentvilan picnic and grill area. 2B EKE AND JÄLLA MEADOWS lofty observation points. The trail ends in a marsh Say ”hi” to the cows and discover 4B SUNNERSTA FOOTBRIDGE where you can find the round-leaved sundew, a plants in the meadows. Watch Walk along the footbridge and carnivorous plant. the buzzards swoop over the flora Researchers have compared the plants one finds fine water plants in the march. from Linnaeus’s time. Folk THE VAKSALA TRAIL – 8.7 KM today along the Linnaeus Trails with those that Listen to the birds and see the medicine used the hare’s foot The trail begins in Nyby from where you continue Linnaeus described. On the next few pages, we have frogs jump out. The common clover as a cure for various toward the pastures. It ends in Törnby, a farm that chosen some plants along the trails that also were hemp nettle was discovered by diseases of domesticated animals, generated the income to pay Linnaeus his professor’s there in Linnaeus’s day. Hare’s foot clover Common hemp nettle Olof Rudbeck about 300 years Trifolium arvense as well as people. salary. Galeopsis tetrahit ago. This plant prefers nitrogen- Blooms: June to July Blooms: July to September rich soil. THE LINNAEUS TRAILS 8A THE BROOK AT ÖRNSÄTRA 8B THE FOOTBRIDGE OVER 1A OBSERVATION TOWER ON 1B THE FOOTBRIDGE TO SJÖDYN 2A THE RÅBY PARK FOREST Parking: Studentvilan, 3.4 km away LÅGMOSSEN MARSH TUNA RIDGE Service: Seats Parking: Nyby, 1 km away Bus stop: Broholm, 4.7 km away Parking: Studentvilan, 500 metres away Service: Picnic table Parking: Gamla Uppsala högar, 5.8 km away, Bus stop: Nyby, 2 km away Coordinates: 59.9489089, 17.3604604