Description
Join botanist, James Common, for a walk and workshop exploring abundant yet frustrating family of plants.
About This Course
Course tutor: James Common
Course length: 1x workshop, 3 July 2025, 10am-1pm,
Course structure: morning walk followed by indoor ID session
Meeting Point: Entrance to Gosforth Nature Reserve
Course cost: £10 NHSN Members / £15 Non-Members
Come high summer, an assortment of willowherb species bloom across the North East. Many of these as superfisically similar to the next, giving them a [unfair?] bad reputation, even among botanists.
In this informal, friendly workshop we’ll take a short walk around Gosforth Nature Reserve and nieghbouring urban habitats gathering samples before retiring to the Field Studies Room to identify our finds using custom resources.
Here, we should have chance of encountering most common species associated with wild and uranised habitats including Short-fruited, Hoary, Great, Square-stemmed, Pale, Broad-leaved, Marsh, Rosebay and American Willowherbs.
In the event of poor weather, every effort will be taken to reschedule the session.
Additional Information
Questions (and identification queries) are welcome at any time by emailing james.common@newcastle.ac.uk.
Please read the terms and conditions for NHSN education courses before booking.
Recommended Equipment:
A hand lens, if you have one and stout walking boots.
About the tutor:
James works as Senior Naturalist at NHSN. Outside of work, he is a passionate wildlife recorder with a focus on botany and invertebrates. As a botanist, he is a joint BSBI Vice-County Recorder for North Northumberland and an iRecord verifier for South Northumberland.