Plants

Record your local botanical observations here

Monitoring local flora (plants) is a brilliant way to understand the health of our ecosystems. A functional plant network is essential for creating habitats where animals also thrive. We depend on plants for everything: food, clothes, most of our material objects and even the air we breathe!

We have guides to help you monitor the plant systems in various habitats: woodlands, grasslands, hedgerows or urban areas. You could also clue yourself up on specific plant groups, like orchids. grasses, mosses or ferns. Learning more botanical knowledge is a fantastic way to become more passionate about nature conservation, and when we understand and recognise the wildlife around us better, we can notice when something is diminishing and needs work to conserve it. Ask us about borrowing our quadrats for botanical monitoring as well.

But there is one even simpler way to help conserve RBWM's local nature when you borrow our guides you can do when borrowing our guides: recording the plants you find! And the easiest way to do this with local records within the Royal Borough is to send to the Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre (TVERC) their website here or download the app.