Reading the newspaper and came across this web link;
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/fff/
You enter part of a postcode and up pops a list of wild plants recorded in that area. The Plant distribution data are derived from the Atlas of the British Flora, 3rd Edition (published by the Botanical Society of the British Isles, 1982). The dataset currently contains 1,353 species (about 90 percent of Britain's native flora).
You end up with a plants Common name, Scientific name, Pictures and the Form it takes i.e. whether it is Annual, Biennial, Climber, Geophyte (bulb, rhizome, etc.), Herbaceous Perennial, Large Shrub or Small Tree, Marsh Plant, Parasite, Perennial, Shrub, Tree, Water Plant, Woody Perennial.
Could be yet another useful e-resource for reference purposes once home from a field trip (unless you carry a lap top around who knows) or just to see whats on your doorstep.
Looking further at this site I have also found
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/fff/Search.htm
Where you can search the fauna database for individual animal species.
Hope it might prove useful to some
Elliott
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/fff/
You enter part of a postcode and up pops a list of wild plants recorded in that area. The Plant distribution data are derived from the Atlas of the British Flora, 3rd Edition (published by the Botanical Society of the British Isles, 1982). The dataset currently contains 1,353 species (about 90 percent of Britain's native flora).
You end up with a plants Common name, Scientific name, Pictures and the Form it takes i.e. whether it is Annual, Biennial, Climber, Geophyte (bulb, rhizome, etc.), Herbaceous Perennial, Large Shrub or Small Tree, Marsh Plant, Parasite, Perennial, Shrub, Tree, Water Plant, Woody Perennial.
Could be yet another useful e-resource for reference purposes once home from a field trip (unless you carry a lap top around who knows) or just to see whats on your doorstep.
Looking further at this site I have also found
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/fff/Search.htm
Where you can search the fauna database for individual animal species.
Hope it might prove useful to some
Elliott