Resources and Links
You may find the following links helpful for undertaking Big Meadow Searches and for building your botanical skills.
Big Meadow Search Book: 'A guide to grassland indicator plants and some of their associated species'. Published April 2023. Covers all of the species on the Big Meadow Search species list which comprises National Plant Monitoring Scheme Lowland Grassland Indicator Species plus additional grassland species of interest. Colour photos of each plant species with identification features and a selection of associated species (invertebrates, fungi and galls). A4 size, 161 pages. £10 plus £2.70 postage. Please contact [email protected] to order.
Grid reference finder and App
https://gridreferencefinder.com/
Free App: Grid Ref UK and Ireland
National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS)
A range of videos and supporting materials covering various types of habitat including dry acid grassland, neutral damp grassland, neutral pasture and meadows, upland grassland, arable field margins and dry calcareous grasslands Online Training | National Plant Monitoring Scheme (npms.org.uk)
Botanical Society of British Isles (BSBI)
- Identification resources https://bsbi.org/identification
- Cribs Plant Crib – Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland (bsbi.org)
- Online sedges
- Apps review BSBI-News-144-pp34-40-plant-id-apps-final.pdf
- Vegetative ID
o Vegetative Grass Identification - part 1 - YouTube
o Vegetative Grass Identification - part 2 - YouTube
- Yellow composites BSBI-News-147-Beginners-Corner.pdf
- Grassland plants Grassland plants of the British and Irish lowlands by Stuart Smith - YouTube
Plantlife
= Grasslands as a climate solution - YouTube
- Parts of a plant An introduction to plant identification: parts of a plant - YouTube
- Managing grassland for waxcaps Managing grassland for waxcaps - Land managed by grazing.pdf
Species Recovery Trust
= Neutral Grasslands (filesusr.com)
Classes for Grasses Classes for Grasses Episode 1 - Grass Structure and Anatomy - YouTube
Floodplain Meadows Partnership
Resources | Welcome to the Floodplain Meadows Partnership Website
PDF copy of technical handbook https://www.floodplainmeadows.org.uk/sites/www.floodplainmeadows.org.uk/files/Floodplain Meadows - Beauty and Utility A Technical Handbook.pdf
Biological Records Centre (BRC)
Online Atlas Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora (brc.ac.uk)
Field Studies Council
Guide to grass groups Key to Groups of British Grasses | Biodiversity Projects (fscbiodiversity.uk)
Wild Flower Finder
wildflowerfinder.org.uk
British Wild Flowers
British Wild Flowers (british-wild-flowers.co.uk)
Natural History Museum
Orchid identification guide orchid-observers-id-guide.pdf (nhm.ac.uk)
Vegetative orchid identification guide A beginner's vegetative guide to orchids of the British Isles (nhm.ac.uk)
Wiltshire Botanical Society
Nature Scotland
Types of species rich grassland Guide to types of species-rich grassland (nature.scot)
Magnificent Meadows www.magnificentmeadows.org.uk/assets/pdfs/How_to_identify_different_types_of_grassland.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2cNMxDkv1XwGa-iBEOsgIqeYusi_8sTsy1Ino89XjLXFDOVmOPozvm17c
Botanical Terms
Flora of East Anglia
Flowers by Colour (webidguides.com)
Umbellifers Umbellifers (webidguides.com)