Videos

On our channel you will also find links to featured channels by notable BSBI botanists such as Tim Rich, Lliam Rooney and Joshua Styles. We are featuring their channels because they all contain helpful videos, with correctly identified species and useful ID tips, to help viewers learn more about British and Irish wild plants: 

• Joshua Styles' channel includes his online dandelion ID course, an introduction to Brilliant British Botany. and his sundew reintroduction video: Josh is adding more content all the time.
• 'Tim's botanical riches' features more than 30 short videos by expert botanist Tim Rich, the man behind the celebrated Plant Crib and author of several BSBI Handbooks. Some of the species covered so far include ragweed, Alpine meadow-grass, perennial centaury, several whitebeams, hawkweeds, bitter-cresses, woodrushes and brassicas.
• Kent botanist Lliam Rooney who goes under the name 'Botany Bill' has produced some excellent ID videos on various species of forget-me-not, horsetail, hawthorn, poppy, tasselweed, hornwort and pearlwort.

Here you will find a selection of 20+ short videos including:

• Chris Metherell's guide to identifying wildflowers in damp grassland;
• Fred Rumsey (Natural History Museum) hunting for bee orchids or explaining how to distinguish the native English bluebell from the (rarely seen) Spanish bluebell and the (frequently seen) hybrid bluebell;
• Claudia Ferguson-Smyth's video about Potamogeton epihydrus;
• videos by High Weald AONB on identifying meadow and woodland plants.

This playlist features short videos from herbaria at Kew, RBG Edinburgh and Cambridge University about collecting, pressing and using herbarium specimens.

There is only one full-length video on this playlist so far: Joshua Styles's online dandelion ID course. The video is around one hour long but we suggest that you start watching around three minutes in! The accompanying slides are available here on our Dandelion ID page.

We are hoping to expand this selection of online training courses in the coming months.

BSBI is a partner in the National Plant Monitoring Scheme and this playlist contains a video about the scheme and several more guiding you through various habitats covered by the scheme.

Videos by Dr M (university lecturer and a member of BSBI's Training Team) can be found here including (for some light relief) his legendary 'Poaceae song'.

Several of Dr M's students have also made plant videos: here's Pete Flood's video about Catabrosa aquatica and here's Alex Mills' video about the bryophyte-rich temperate rainforests of northwest Europe, which features a cameo from Fred Rumsey of the Natural History Museum - and a couple of filmy-ferns.