Identifying Grasses, Sedges and Rushes

Learn the fundamentals of grass, sedge and rush identification, essential and valuable skills for any field and conservation ecologists.

Green leaves that all look the same and no pretty flowers, grasses, sedges and rushes are so difficult to identify! Emphasis will be on practical skills with identification taking place mainly in the classroom, where there is the time and equipment to fully examine specimens. A range of common species, both flowering and non-flowering, from local habitats will be used. Students should become familiar with a good range of common species relating these species to their preferred habitat and be able to identify these species in the field, producing a portfolio of specimens and a small voucher collection.