Università Roma Tre

The field botany course aims to offer a direct field experience for identifying plant species of Italian vascular flora, with particular attention to the Central-Southern Apennines, by lectures, herbarium and laboratory tools. For this aim, excursions and trips are intended to recognise the main plant traits (growth form, pollination, dispersal, etc.) and the habitat of plant communities, to collect plant material for providing herbarium exsiccata. Use in field of website Dryades (Univ. Trieste) identification keys will be an innovative tools. A fundamental topic of the course will be an attention to biogeographic history regarding rare species and endemics. By the end of the course the student will be able to use technical tools and methodology in the plant identification, as well as from a biogeographical-ecological view point.