Stuart Hedley is running a series of plant monitoring training days for us this summer so Group members and farmers in the Meadow Making pilot can use a rapid plant monitoring technique to assess their meadows before and after enhancement see the Survey and Monitoring page for more details and his how to video
Stuart’s working herbarium sheets include many problem pairs of plants that seem hard to distinguish at first glance. But with a lens and an eye for the detail it’s possible to master identification using these sheets
They are for Herefordshire Meadows’ members to use in the field and not intended for wider circulation.
bulbous buttercup – all of them !
rough (greater) and lesser hawkbits
beaked hawksbeard and autumn hawkbit
common and greater bird’s foot trefoil
Stuart Hedley has also kindly drawn up a simple Key to common yellow “dandelion-flowered” composites of Herefordshire