This website is a resource for botanists in the British Isles. The site draws on the database of the Botanical Society of the British Isles and allows a simple search to identify family, genus and species. The taxonomy follows that used in D H Kent's List of Vascular Plants of the British Isles published by the BSBI. The "Kent numbers" referred to in these pages are those used by Kent to identify family, genus and species (and, sometimes, subspecies).
BRC numbers refer to the identifier allocated by the Biological Records Centre.
Users of the site are invited to submit photographs of plants so that the online database eventually becomes a photographic record aswell as a taxonomic record of our flora. Soon it will also be possible for users to submit descriptions and key identification points for plants, making confirmation of identification easier.
Here are a few of the most recently uploaded photographs to give you a taster of what is on the website.
Please notify the webmaster if you find any mistakes.
.jpg "Rhinanthus minor, Yellow-rattle")
.jpg "Potentilla erecta, Tormentil")
.jpg "Prunella vulgaris, Selfheal")
.jpg "Anacamptis pyramidalis, Pyramidal Orchid")
.jpg "Pedicularis sylvatica, Lousewort")
.jpg "Galium verum, Lady's Bedstraw")
.jpg "Anthyllis vulneraria, Kidney Vetch")
.jpg "Campanula rotundifolia, Harebell")
.jpg "Platanthera chlorantha, Greater Butterfly-orchid")
.jpg "Veronica chamaedrys, Germander Speedwell")
.jpg "Sherardia arvensis, Field Madder")
.jpg "Linum catharticum, Fairy Flax")
.jpg "Linum catharticum, Fairy Flax")
.jpg "Empetrum nigrum subsp. nigrum, Crowberry")
.jpg "Erodium cicutarium, Common Stork's-bill")
.jpg "Polygala vulgaris, Common Milkwort")
.jpg "Centaurium erythraea, Common Centaury")
.jpg "Stellaria media, Common Chickweed")
.jpg "Anagallis tenella, Bog Pimpernel")
.jpg "Narthecium ossifragum, Bog Asphodel")
.jpg "Sedum anglicum, English Stonecrop")