Schalkenmehrener Maar

The Schalkenmehrener Maar is a maar approximately 3 kilometers southeast of the town of Daun in the Eifel in the German province of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is one of the Daun Maars Dauner Maare or Daun Maar Group and is a twofold maar, including a western maar lake and an eastern dry maar. Both were conformed to 10,500 years prior as the aftereffect of a phreatomagmatic blast. The lake in the western piece of the maar differs somewhere in the range of 500 and 575 meters in measurement and is up to 21 meters down.

The stature of the maar above ocean level is 420 meters normal rise of the water surface. It fills the later of the 2 maar bowls. The eastern piece of the maar is involved by a raised marsh. Naturally, three distinct zones can be recognized: the shore region, the raised marsh and the inclines of the maar bowl. In the shore zone, just as the reeds there are networks of yellow iris, white water-lily, yellow loosestrife, purple loosestrife and club-surge. The slants of the maar bowl are overwhelmed by a blend of dry prairie and forest edge vegetation.

Notwithstanding Breckland thyme and oregano, there is restharrow, hare's-foot clover, jump trefoil, thin leaved everlasting pea, musk mallow, grouped bellflower, wool hemp-bother, fox and whelps, dark colored knapweed, more noteworthy knapweed, little scabious, woodruff and extensive networks of rosebay willow-herb. Adult that might be seen incorporate greenery enclosure lupins and substantial bloomed mountain trumpets.