Refresh or improve your identification skills of chalk grassland plants
About the event
This is one of three separate plant identification day courses we are running in different habitats this year. On this course you will spend a whole day exploring a chalk grassland habitat with the aim of identifying the plants found there using hand lenses, identification guides, keys, mobile phone apps and by collecting specimens.
Meet at the Bluebell Hill car park and do the short walk through the grassland areas of Bluebell to Burham Down.
It would be useful if you could bring your own wildflower books, hand lenses and a phone. We recommend Francis Rose's Wild Flower Key, and Fitter, Fitter & Blamey's Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland.
This course is suitable for those who wish to refresh or improve their plant identification skills.
Led by Alex Lockton, who has thirty years’ experience as a botanist and ecologist. He also teaches our botany evening classes in Maidstone and Canterbury and runs our Plant Identification in the Field summer school.
This course is now fully booked. You can add your name to the waiting list by clicking on the orange 'Join Waitlist' button in the booking window below or please email [email protected]
Alternatively, we still have a few places available on our Woodland plant identification day on 7 May.
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What to bring
Outdoor clothing, lunch and drinks, hand lens, preferred ID guides,phone, notebook and pencil
Meeting point
Meet at the Bluebell Hill car park (What3Words: bravest.fellow.couriers).Then do the short walk through the grassland areas of Bluebell toBurham Down
Not Wheelchair accessible. There are steps, a slope, kissing gates andunsurfaced, uneven, slippery paths.