Botanical Identification
Friday 14 May 2010
Location: Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
Tutor: Jonathan Bradley CEnv MIEEM
Level: Beginner
The identification of flowering plants using identification keys. The workshop is intended to increase participants’ familiarity with plants, their family relationships and the diagnostic features that determine their species. The workshop will concentrate on herbs and grasses but will cover whatever is encountered (habitats will all be lowland) but will include woodland, scrub, wetland, and early-successional habitats.
IEEM Members: £80 (£70 if booked before 14 March 2010).
Non-members: £160 (£140 if booked before 14 March 2010).
Who should attend this workshop?
This course is intended for consultant ecologists, local authority ecologists, park wardens, reserve rangers, and land managers.
Anything participants need to know/read before coming on the training event, or need to have with them?
Bring:
- Waterproof outdoor clothing.
- Pencil and paper.
- Stout boots.
- A packed lunch.
- A decent botanical guide. Rose is good and quite user-friendly (Rose, F. (various editions). The Wild Flower Key), Stace is authoritative (Stace, C (1997). New Flora of the British Isles(second edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge).
What will participants learn from the workshop (learning outcomes)?
- How to identify a wide range of plants and to gain an understanding of family relationships.
NB. NVC will not be covered.