Wild Flower Identification: Using a Flora

The love of wild flowers can be manifest in many ways, but almost always underlying that special sense of joy, excitement, familiarity and understanding is the ability to give the flower its name. The name is also, of course, the key to finding out more about it and for sharing information with others should you wish to do so.

This is a very practical course of particular interest to amateur and professional botanists and ecologists who wish to gain more experience and confidence in plant recognition. The emphasis is on using a flora as a means of identifying and getting to know more about our wonderful yet dwindling heritage of wild flowers.

Participants will be led gently through the mysteries of botanical keys, so that you can arrive at a correct identification and understand the beautiful and complex structures that make up the whole plant.

The content is also appropriate for anyone wishing to contribute to their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements.

Andrea Kiewitt is a qualified biologist, botanist and ecologist and works as a research scientist for the Forestry Commission where she has been carrying out vegetation assessments in woodlands for many years.

She is a keen naturalist and as an inquisitive and enthusiastic tutor she has taught courses overseas and in the UK, both at university degree level and as part of general environmental education activities in the North York Moors National Park.

This will be her fifth year as a regular Associate Tutor at Flatford Mill.

‘Tutor very informative, enthusiastic and approachable’. Course participant May 2011.

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