Bodkin Hazel Wood is a 10.62 hectare

Hectare

The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...

 biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), just south of the village of Hawkesbury Upton

Hawkesbury Upton

Hawkesbury Upton is a village in South Gloucestershire, England, east of the much smaller Hawkesbury. It lies north of Horton, east of Dunkirk and south of Alderley and Hillesley. The "Somerset Monument" is on the Cotswold Edge nearby....

 in South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire is a unitary district in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, in South West England.-History:The district was created in 1996, when the county of Avon was abolished, by the merger of former area of the districts of Kingswood and Northavon...

, notified in 1974.

Biological interest

The site has a diverse ground flora. In addition to common species such as Dog's mercury

Dog's Mercury

Mercurialis perennis, commonly known as dog's mercury, is a woodland plant found in much of Europe, but almost absent from Ireland, Orkney and Shetland. A member of the spurge family , it is a herbaceous, downy perennial with erect stems bearing simple, serrate leaves. The dioecious inflorescences...

 (Mercurialis perennis), Primrose

Primula vulgaris

Primula vulgaris is a species of Primula native to western and southern Europe , northwest Africa , and southwest Asia...

 (Primula vulgaris), Bluebell

Common Bluebell

Hyacinthoides non-scripta, commonly known as the common bluebell, is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial plant. -Taxonomy:...

 (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), Wood Anemone

Anemone nemorosa

Anemone nemorosa is an early-spring flowering plant in the genus Anemone in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Europe. Common names include wood anemone, windflower, thimbleweed and smell fox, an allusion to the musky smell of the leaves...

 (Anemone nemorosa), Wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) and Ramsons

Ramsons

Ramsons — also known as buckrams, wild garlic, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, and bear's garlic — is a wild relative of chives native to Europe and Asia...

 (Allium ursinum), a number of scarce species are present. These include Cow-wheat (Melampyrum pratense), Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia), Toothwort

Toothwort

Toothwort is a small genus of five to seven species of flowering plants, native to temperate Europe and Asia. They are parasitic plants on the roots of other plants, and are completely lacking chlorophyll. They are classified in the family Orobanchaceae. In addition, Cardamine concatenata is also...

 (Lathraea squamaria), Autumn crocus

Autumn Crocus

Autumn Crocus may refer to:*One of two species of flowering plant:** the Autumn Crocus Crocus nudiflorus** the Meadow Saffron Colchicum autumnale, which is also known as Autumn Crocus* Autumn Crocus , a 1931 play by Dodie Smith...

 (Colchicum autumnale), Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis) and Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem (Gagea lutea).