Plant Identification in the Field

We will be working in partnership with University of Kent to run a week-long botany course in 2025. On each day of this course, a new site is visited and explored with the aim of identifying plants by using identification guides, keys, apps and by collecting specimens.

It would be useful if you could bring your own wildflower books keys and hand lenses. We recommend Francis Rose's Wild Flower Key, and Fitter, Fitter & Blamey's Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland.

The classes are led by Alex Lockton, who has thirty years’ experience as a botanist and ecologist. He also teaches our botany evening classes in Maidstone and Canterbury and runs our Plant Identification Days. He is author of The Flora and Vegetation of Shropshire (2015).

Please note that this is not beginners' course. Keys will be to used to identify specimens and botanical terms used.

For further information, please visit the Study Days page of the Kent Wildlife Trust website.