Tuesday 30 – Wednesday 31 July 2013
By late July the flowers of many of our finest native plants have started to fade, with the notable exception of glorious shows of thistles, ragworts, dandelions and mayweeds. Asteraceae is the biggest family of flowering plants in the UK, with strong claims to be both the most familiar and the most confusing. Learn how to tell apart and name the look-alikes that are such a notorious feature of this plant family.