More on grasses (and some quizzes)

Upright brome (with its "camel's eyelashes") cheekily taken from DP's quiz below (in a spirit of promotion).

It's a strange thing but after repeated efforts at grasses over the years, it seems I've reached some sort of breakthrough and am starting to feel some sort of familiarity with them. I hope this pleasant sensation is something you will also feel when you've spent a bit of time on your taxonomic collection.

The video below stars the author of the excellent "Field Guide to Grasses, Sedges and Rushes", Dominic Price. He's very good at showing you the distinctive characteristics of the plants. The video concentrates on meadow species and I was pleased to recognise most of them (and have taken copious notes :).

His charity, the Species Recovery Trust, have devised some identification quizzes on Buzzfeed (usually the preserve of 'Pick eight noodle dishes and we'll tell you when you'll get married' type fodder).

This one is on grasses (I got 77% right and felt rather chuffed).

There's also one on sedges  (Only 57% but that wasn't a massive surprise - I need to go and find some sedges and get back into them. They are lovely with their little utricles, don't you know).

For people who are doing winter twigs - you'll be delighted there is one for those too. 
I only got 70% right but after all the work on your tree collection I'm sure you will do better than that. It's rather good because it has questions on whole tree shapes, twig features and also just buds.