Join in

The Big Meadow Search is a project developed by Carmarthenshire Meadows Group to raise awareness and interest in grasslands and to record plant species.  It runs from 1 June to 31 August each year.  Participants can be from UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

To participate select your area of grassland, record the location name, grid reference and date – then amble about and make a note of all the plant species you know. Don’t worry if you can’t identify everything – if you aren’t sure take photographs from multiple angles of the flower heads, basal and stem leaves, upper and lower leaf surface, leaf base shape and either post on our social media or email to us and we will try and help to identify. Enter your records or email us.

Once we have finished our BMS analysis, we will send them on to your local environmental record centre (LERC) so that we maximise the value of the data. Any species rich grassland types can be searched including meadows, field edges, woodland rides, church yards, road verges and wild amenity grasslands and gardens.

If you own land but are unable to undertake a search yourself, please get in touch as we might be able to arrange a volunteer to undertake a search and provide a species list.

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For information on species ID and interactions please take a look at Big Meadow Search Facebook Group, X (@bigmeadowsearch), Bluesky (@bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social), Instagram (@bigmeadowsearch) or get in touch via email

 

We also have a Carmarthenshire Facebook Group.

Big Meadow Search