Woodland Plants: Identification and Ecology

This is a weekend course for woodland managers, countryside professionals, teachers and amateur naturalists alike who want to improve their skills in woodland plant identification. You will become familiar with not only the trees and well-known springtime flowers but also less conspicuous plants typical of the woodland ground flora. This will include traditionally difficult groups such as woodland grasses, sedges, rushes and ferns.
The emphasis of this practical course is on easy field characters to separate the different groups and recognise individual species. You will also have the opportunity for using botanical keys for identifying plants to species level.
Following an introduction to the different plant groups we will spend most of the weekend out in the field visiting a range of woodland habitats and discussing the ecology of this often disregarded vegetation which inhabits the shady understorey beneath the trees.

This course is suitable for CPD (Continuing Professional Development) and a Certificate of Attendance can be provided on request.

Andrea Kiewitt is a qualified biologist, botanist and ecologist and works as a woodland vegetation research scientist for the Forestry Commission. She is a keen naturalist and an inquisitive and enthusiastic tutor who has been teaching plant identification and ecology for the FSC for many years.

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