Some of these resources have been developed by BSS members.
- We are featuring one species each week as Plant of the Week, usually one that’s flowering now (see the main blog)
- We usually run a beginner’s identification workshop in May and hold field meetings throughout the summer; keep an eye on the blog and our website for details of future events
- Richard Milne has developed a web site on plant ID for his students at Edinburgh University, with a family finder key and a downloadable poster showing the relationships of the world’s vascular plants. Check it out at Milneorchid’s Botany Site
- Lyn Jones of Dundee University has made a visual key: you click on pictures and it leads you to the species. Try it here and maybe install the app on your phone. There are several apps like this to chose from; look at a recent review by Lyn here and, if you like, you can watch a lecture by Hamlyn Jones about the use of apps for plant id on our YouTube channel.
- Or try iSpot, developed several years ago by Jonathan Silvertown when he was at the Open University. You can upload a photo of any plant (or animal/fungus) and people will help you identify it, sometimes very quickly
- Our friends at the Botanical Society of the British Isles have compiled many resources as well: investigate them here
- The BSS has a Facebook page where you can upload images of unknown plants for us to identify. We are thinking of starting a special Facebook page where members may upload images and we will try to identify them. If you might use this then please tell us
Are there any other articles or videos on plant identification that you would find useful? Feel free to let us know!
