ID Resource Resource Finder
The ID Resource Finder is an online searchable catalogue of UK wildlife identification resources. A key feature is that this catalogue is crowd-sourced, all you have to do is create an account to add/edit the resources.
If you spot anything missing, any broken links or mistakes then please jump in and add/fix it. Or let the team know about issue via email: [email protected].
Displaying 1 - 50 of 96.| Title | Description | Author(s) | Free | Availability | |
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| A beginner’s vegetative guide to orchids of the British Isles | This guide is designed to aid anyone in the process of identifying orchids when they are not in flower | Mike Waller | Yes | View Edit | |
| A Guide to Grasses, their Structure, Identification, Uses and Distribution in the British Isles | ISPN: 0140132279 The classic text on British Grass identification. 476pp, numerous line illustrations. | Hubbard, C. E. | No | Online | View Edit |
| A guide to the identification of deciduous broad-leaved trees and shrubs in winter | This fully illustrated AIDGAP field guide is designed to enable non-specialists to identify many of the deciduous trees | May & Panter | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A Key to Wild and Introduced Daffodils of Great Britain | In addition to our native daffodil there are a large number of introduced daffodils growing wild in Britain. | Mick Crawley | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| A new key to wild flowers | Halfway between an introductory guide and a technical flora, this user-friendly key provides an easy route to the accura | Hayward & Hickey | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Apples: a field guide | The book is intended to help identify that unknown apple growing in your garden or in the park; to help you choose which | Michael Clark | No | Publication | View Edit |
| April Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in April. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Bee orchids and their relatives | Guide to UK bee orchids. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Botanical Keys - Find Wild Flowers | The Botanical Society for Britian and Ireland (BSBI) hosts this on line plant key produced by one of their members. The | Quentin Groom | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Botanical keys and how to use them - Facebook group | A closed group (anyone can request to join). | Kevin Widdowson | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Brambles (Rubus) of Britain and Ireland | Facebook group devoted to the identification and study of UK brambles | David-Müzeyyen Merrick | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Britain's Orchids: A Field Guide to the Orchids of Great Britain and Ireland WILDGuide | ISBN: 9780691177618 Published: 2020 Covering more than fifty species as well as hybrids and variants, this is an en | No | Publication | View Edit | |
| British water plants | This AIDGAP field guide to British water plants is a comprehensive guide to the identification of living specimens in th | Haslam, Sinker & Wolseley | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Flora Search | Online multi-access key for the identification of British flora. | Quentin Groom | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 1 Sedges of the British Isles | ISBN-13: 978-0901158352 The 3rd edition of this handbook has been considerably expanded in size, with the scope of the | Jermy, AC. Simpson, DA. Foley, MJY. Porter, MS | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 10 Sea Beans and Nickar Nuts | A handbook of exotic seeds and fruits stranded on beaches in north-western Europe.154pp, drawings by W WALSH, A Hathway | E Charles Nelson | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 11 Water Starworts: Callitriche of Europe | ISBN: 9780901158369 Provides guidance on the identification of all species, subspecies and varieties of water-starwort | Lansdown, R. V. | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 12 Fumitories of Britain and Ireland | ISBN-13: 978-0-901158-40-6 Fumitories are a fascinating group of plants. | Rosaline J. Murphy | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 13 Grasses of the British Isles | ISBN 978‐0‐901158‐420 This new Handbook attempts to bridge the gap between the taxonomy of the 1980s and the new molec | Tom Cope & Alan Gray | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 14 Whitebeams, Rowans and Service Trees of Britain and Ireland | **This book is now out of print.** ISBN: 9780901158437 This book contains an account of 52 native or naturalised S | Rich, Houston, Robertson and Proctor | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 15 British Northern Hawkweeds | ISBN: 978090115845 There are 21 species in British Northern Hawkweeds (Hieracium section Alpestria), 16 of which occur | Tim C. G. Rich & Walter Scott | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 2 Umbellifers of The British Isles | ISPN: 9780901158024 Keys to, descriptions and line drawings of 73 British species. Drawings by Ann Farrer. | T. G .Tutin | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 3 Docks and Knotweeds of Britain and Ireland | ISPN: 9780901158475 Based on "Docks and Knotweeds of the British Isles" by Lousley and Kent (1981) this long | J.R. Akeroyd | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 4 Willows and Poplars of Great Britain and Ireland | Useful identification guide to native Salix and Populus species, hybrids and varieties in Britain - 65 described. | R .D. Meikle | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 6 Crucifers | Standard reference for the identification of Cruciferae species in the British Isles. | T.C.G. Rich | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 7 Roses of Great Britain and Ireland | Descriptions of 13 native and 9 introduces taxa of Rosa. Briefer descriptions of 76 hybrids. | G.G. Graham and A.L. Primavesi | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 8 Pondweeds of Great Britain and Ireland | A substantial guide to the British species of Potamogeton, Groenlandia and Ruppia, with an excellent introductory sectio | C. D. Preston | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 9 Dandelions of Great Britain and Ireland | Descriptions of 235 species of Taraxacum , including microspecies, most of them illustrated by silhouettes of herbarium | A.A. Dudman and A.J. Richards | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI species accounts | The species accounts available on the BSBI web page and provide information on identification, habitat, biogeography, ec | Walker, K.J. & Stroh, P.A. | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Collins Tree Guide | Over 1500 trees of Britain and Northern Europe described, with pictures of the whole tree, flowers, leaves and twigs. | Owen Johnson | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Colour Identification Guide to Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns | 240pp. 62 colour plates. Detailed descriptions, keys and clear illustrations of some 400 species. | Francis Rose | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Commoner water plants | Need an identification guide to water plants? This 12-panel laminated fold-out chart is designed to help you to | Orton, Bebbington & Bebbington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Creeping Forget-me-not - ID video | A video guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of Creeping Forget-me-not, to aid in the identification of | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Dandelions (Taraxacum) of Britain and Ireland | A Facebook group devoted to the identification of UK dandelions (Taraxacum), of the Asteraceae (Compositae) family. | David-Müzeyyen Merrick | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Describing flowers | Do you want to use a flora but not sure what the terms actually mean? | Bebbington & Bebbington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Field Guide to Invasive Plants and Animals in Britain | The impact of invasive organisms is second only to habitat loss as a threat to biodiversity and yet, despite increasing | Olaf Booy, Helen Roy, Max Wade | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Forget-me-not - video ID key | A video key (short YouTube film) to the Forget-me-nots found in Kent and commonly found throughout the UK. | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Grasses | Covering 30 species, this fold-out chart should enable everyone to put a name to some of the most common species of gras | Gardener & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to duckweeds | Guide to six common duckweed species. | OPAL/BSBI | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to grassland plants 1 | Featuring colour illustrations of 54 species, this 12-page fold-out chart covers plants commonly found on lowland acid a | Gulliver, Gulliver & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to grassland plants 2 (chalk and limestone) | Featuring colour illustrations of 63 species, and black-and-white illustrations of a further 15, this 12-page fold-out c | Bebbington & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to orchids | With colour paintings covering 69 species, subspecies and hybrids, this chart covers all the orchids that you are likely | Gulliver & Gulliver | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Hawthorns - video ID key | A video guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of the native Hawthorns and its hybrid in the UK to aid in | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| How to identify Autumn seeds | Beautiful illustrations of 12 distinctive seeds to look for during Autumn. | Peter Marren, Felicity Rose Cole | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Hybrid Flora of the British Isles | This book provides detailed accounts of the 909 hybrids reliably recorded in the wild in the British Isles. | C.A. Stace, C.D. Preston & D.A. Pearman | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Identify a Euphrasia | An online multi-access key to Eyebrights. | BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Identify your bluebells | Information on how to distinguish UK native bluebells from non-native species and hybrids. | NHM | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Interactive guide to common woody plants of the UK | The key provided here identifies the trees, shrubs and woody climbers found in the wild in the UK, whether native or int | Pier Luigi Nimis, Bob Press, Stefano Martellos & Andrea Moro | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| July Wildflowers Spotter's Sheet | Guide to the commonest wildflowers seen in July. | Plantlife | Yes | View Edit | |
| June Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in June. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
