Grasses ID for beginners - Learn to identify common meadow grasses with ecologist Hannah Gibbons.
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- Grasses ID may seem challenging but watch this video and you’ll soon learn the key indicator species you are likely to find in a species-rich dry meadow.
Grasses will tell you a lot about the land in terms of its management and conservation value so being able to identify key species is really valuable.
Hannah Gibbons is an ecologist and has been working in the conservation sector for 16 years and for the majority of that time has been working for charities (such as DWT and RSPB) carrying out botanical and habitat surveys. Since 2011 she has been running training courses on plant identification and has run several workshops for Moor Meadows.
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Fantastic video, thank you ❤
Trying to learn about grasses, this was so helpful. Thank you so much. I've subscribed.
Love how it's like a instinctual thing for people to pick the grass while you're walking past
great clear introduction to field identification of grasses
wonderful clear presentation.. ty
Thank you for the fantastic explanation about the grasses, it's a good place for me to start learning. We moved to a place in the Scottish Borders that has large areas of grasses that I want to identify, some are so attractive. We left a lot uncut last year as our mower was broken, but that's ok, we're introducing some wildflowers in and love the grass long. I know how important they are for moths. The rhyme I learned years ago is, "grass is flat, sedges have edges and rushes are round", it might have been a bit different, but that's what I remember. We have a gorgeous purpley one that may be the Yorkshire Fog, I'll check tomorrow. Isn't another characteristic just the way it grows? We have one grass that grows in distinct clumps and is very deep rooted. I also have ribwort plantain, I love it when it's in flower, so pretty with the grasses. You can use the leaves chewed up, on insect bites, stings...it draws things out.
brilliant ways to remember grass characteristics thank you! :)
Excellent
Thank you very much 👍
Very useful thanks. I remember saying that same rhyme as you when pulling the flowers off the end of grass stalks!
Wonderful video - very informative. Thank you!
Great stuff Hannah!
wow, this is brilliant!
Thanks very much. I'm ashamed to say that despite having a small-holding for over 20 years my grass identification started and ended with Yorkshire fog. I have several reference texts on the subject all of which have proved invaluable only in curing insomnia 8-)=
brilliant
Sedges have Edges
Rushes are Round
Grasses have joints all the way to the ground
which plants other than yellow rattle, are hemiparasitic on grasses?
are there any others that come close to Yellow rattle, or does the fact that you only ever hear of yellow rattle mean that it is the only plant worth bothering with?
how effective are Odontites vernus/red bartsia or Linaria vulgaris/ toadflax at weakening coarse grasses?
All I can say is that, having introduced Yellow rattle very successfully we completely failed to get red bartsia to germinate at all - a pity as we would have liked the option.
Most plants within the Broomrape family (Orobanchaceae) are at least semi-parasitic on grasses and other plants. The Euphrasia's are one such example, being found commonly in upland grassland meadows. I've not heard of Liniaria vulgaris being parasitic.