Grasses occupy a wide range of ecological niches and can be extremely useful botanical indicators, telling you much about the habitats present at a site (e.g. light, moisture, pH, nutrients and salinity).
How often have you come across a grass that you cannot identify, either because it has not come into flower yet, or it has been grazed/mown off. Then this 1-day beginner-intermediate course is for you, focusing on those vegetative characters that enable the botanist and ecologist to identify many common and less common species reliably.
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.Sorry this course booking is closed
