This beginner to intermediate Grasses, Sedges and Rushes course will provide you with an understanding of the importance of these species for conservation, ecology and recording. Grasses and grass-like plants form a key component of most plant communities yet are often see as notoriously difficult to identify. Accurate identification is also essential for successful site surveys and management and a botanist’s skill is often judged by their ability to ‘do’ grasses, sedges and rushes.

Tutor: Mark Duffell

Mark Duffell has had a lifetime interest in plants, gaining the RHS Diploma in Horticulture and completing an MSc in Biological Recording. He now runs Arvensis Ecology, splitting his time between conducting botanical surveys and teaching botanical identification and survey techniques to undergraduate and postgraduate students, consultancies and environmental organisations.