Wildflowers Course

This beginner course will introduce key features of plants and using these to identify wildflowers.

This beginner-level course on botany will introduce you to the key features of flowering plants and will guide you through using these to identify wildflowers.

This is a 2-day course by the Field Studies Council, based inside the grounds of the Eden Project.

This course will cover:

A basic overview of the evolution of flowering plants, and how they fit in the plant kingdom
The vegetative and reproductive parts of plants (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds)
Using the vegetative and reproductive features of plants in identification
Common species of grassland, hedgerow and wayside

This lively, informative, hands-on course will offer you a relaxed introduction to the world of botany. With plenty of plant material to pull apart and look at in the classroom, you will investigate the vegetative (leaves, stems, roots) and reproductive (flowers, fruits and seeds) parts of flowering plants, and start to understand the roles that they perform. Moving outside, you will look at the plants growing around the course venue – using them for further study of these features. We will consider the domination of the angiosperms (flowering plants) in the broader context of the whole plant kingdom.

he course is for anyone interested in improving their ability to identify and understand the ecology of British wildflowers. This may include nature enthusiasts, students, early career ecologists, citizen scientists, volunteer surveyors, gardeners, and more!

Please refer to our website for further information and to book.