SOURCE DE LA VINGEANNE

The Vingeanne is made up of two streams:
- To the north, the Combe Royer spring, the only "canyon" in the Haute-Marne region carved by water into the limestone terrain. It is considered the "official" geographical source.
- To the south, the other spring is mentioned on the IGN map.
In May, a carpet of wild garlic will accompany you on your discovery. The trail is, in fact, covered with the white stars of garlic and its stunning fragrance...

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For nature specialists:
The ZNIEFF des sources de la Vingeanne, part of the larger ZNIEFF type II du massif forestier d'Auberive est et du Bois de Baissey, comprises a group of former pastures established on marl soils, now largely reforested.
Two areas are still of particular interest: the Rosière marsh, a tufa marsh typical of the Langres Plateau (schoenaie, cariçaie, moliniaie) and an area of alternating dry and wet grassland, the last remaining example of this type of grouping in Haute-Marne.

Vegetation:
The vegetation includes more than a dozen rare or protected species, such as the choin ferrugineux (nationally protected), the herminie clandestine, which has its only station here in Champagne-Ardenne, two other orchids (the gymnadenie à odeur de vanille and the orchis incarnat), the willow creeper, the broad-leaved cottongrass, etc. One species is at its northern limit here. One species is here at the northern limit of its distribution, the medium cane, rare in Haute-Marne. All these species are on the Champagne-Ardenne red list of plants.

Fauna :
The entomofauna is rich and diverse, with many rare or endangered species: for dragonflies, the agrion de Mercure, protected in France since 1993, included on the international lists of the Habitat Directive and the Bern Convention, and on the French fauna red list as a species threatened with extinction in the northern half of France, the ringed cordulégastre, of mountain origin, rare throughout France but well represented on the Langres plateau and included on the Champagne-Ardenne insect red list.
Six crickets are on the Orthoptera red list: singing crickets (vagrant, mountain and small-winged), colorful crickets (blue oedipod), migratory crickets (Italian cricket) and a grasshopper of wetlands with luxuriant vegetation (small-winged grasshopper).
Three butterflies are on the regional red list: the peacock butterfly or Ino, which prefers marshy meadows and light, damp woods, the hermit butterfly (very rare in the plains) and the russet skipper.
The praying mantis and a small cicada, the mountain cicadette, are also present.
Asp vipers and salamanders (on the regional red list) have also been spotted within the ZNIEFF perimeter.
The site has been protected since 1987 by a biotope protection decree covering almost the entire ZNIEFF.

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