GRASSES and SEDGES Courses
Would you like to ..
- Learn how to identify grasses and/or sedges?
- Start to learn how to identify mosses and liverworts??
- Meet new people?
- Become a good plant surveyor?
- Visit some wonderful habitats and scenery?
Dr Judith Allinson runs weekend and weeklong Grasses, Sedges and Rushes Courses, as well as more general botany courses
at several Centres:
Kindrogan Field Centre (near Pitlochry, Perthshire)
Blencathra Field Centre (Cumbria)
Nettlecombe Court Field Centre (Somerset)
She runs day courses by arrangement for interested organisations including IEEM (Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management) Individual tuition can also be arranged.
Judith Allinson has carried out National Vegetation classification (NVC) work on grasslands for English Nature and taught at Malham Tarn Field Centre for several years.
She co-authored the Aidgap publication: British Grasses: a punched-card key to grasses in the vegetative state Pankhurst R.J and Allinson J.M. 1985 (This has also been produced as an interactive computer key)
Would you like Dr Allinson to run a course for you or your students? email with your enquiry
Blue Moor-grass (Sesleria caerulea) on hills above Settle |