Botanical Society of the British Isles

Stace’s New Flora 2010

A special pre-publication discount for BSBI members is on offer from Summerfield Books. Read more...

Recorders’ Conference 2010

We can now take bookings for the Recorders’ Conference in September 2010. Despite its name, the conference is not just for County Recorders - anyone interested in recording the flora of Britain & Ireland would find it useful and interesting. Follow this link for details.

New Daffodil Web Site

The Daffodil Site

Snowdrop Season

>> A handy guide to snowdrop identification by Mick Crawley pdf 607kb.

New on the web site

Robbing Bee (Nic Charlton)

>> Bees robbing Red Campion

>> Flora of Co. Down project

Tetrad Maps of Ireland

Our Tetrad Distribution Maps now include both Britain and Ireland. Sure, the Irish data is even thinner than our somewhat sparse British recording, but officially we don’t launch our tetrad mapping project until 2010, so what you see is only a preview...

Identify a Plant...

...using our multi-access BotanicalKeys web site, where you can submit your record, which will be forwarded to the relevant county recorder. Or, if you would rather, then please send us a photo of a plant for identification. The Plant Crib is the most detailed guide to the identification of difficult plants in Britain & Ireland.

Books and Publications

Visit Summerfield Books for information on our publications, including our series of Identification Handbooks. Increasing numbers of Rare Plant Registers are free to download. The Digital Archive provides free access to electronic copies of our journals.

Go straight there...

>> Start learning botany

>> Identify a plant

>> Species accounts

>> Distribution Maps

>> Publications Archive

>> Herbaria at Home

>> Database

>> Meetings Diary

Projects

>> Altitudes

>> Axiophytes

>> Hybridization

>> Rare Plant Registers

>> Road Verges

>> Site Floras

>> Threatened Plants Database

>> Threatened Plants Project

>> Trees & Shrubs

 

Hosted web pages

 

Registered address: Botanical Society of the British Isles, Botany Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD

The Botanical Society of the British Isles (known as BSBI) is a charity registered in England and Wales (212560) and in Scotland (SC038675).

>>> For general enquiries, the Coordinator is Alex Lockton.

>>> For membership enquiries and changes of address, the membership secretary is Gwynn Ellis.

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