Guidance

Grasses can be fascinating but are not always the easiest of our native plants to identify in the field, even when they've been allowed to grow to full height due to the absence of industrial herbivores. So it's worth looking for a decent guidebook.

You have a choice, amongst which are the volumes by Francis Rose, probably ruled out for cost reasons, Hubbard which has questions about its robustness, and the standby Fitter and Farrer in the Collins Pocket Guide series which is robust enough but has recently climbed alarmingly in price.

In certain places you need to hurry if specimens are to be found before these ...

                        turn the grass into ...

                                              and this ...