Refresh or improve your identification skills of meadow 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 meadow habitat (neutral grassland) with the aim of identifying the plants found there using hand lenses, identification guides, keys, mobile phone apps and by collecting specimens.
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.
The classes are led by Alex Lockton, who has thirty years’ experience working as a lecturer in ecology at Birmingham University and Manchester Metropolitan University, as coordinator of the Botanical Society of the British Isles, and as an ecological consultant. He is author of The Flora and Vegetation of Shropshire (2015).
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No facilities
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What to bring:
Outdoor clothing, lunch and drinks, hand lens, preferred ID guides, phone, notebook and pencil
Meeting point:
OS Map Reference TQ 764 444 and What3Words: marine.shakes.beaks
Parking charges apply at Marden Meadows car park but this is included with your ticket if you book at least 72 hours in advance. To receive free parking you must email the correct number plate of the car you will be using to [email protected] at least 72 hours before the event start time. Please include the date of the event you have booked and the name the booking was made in as part of your email. If you are booking within 72 hours of the event, or do not confirm your number plate by this time, you will need to pay for parking on the day.
Paths are relatively flat but can become wet in poor conditions. There are medium mobilitykissing gates.