Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland

[1] The society publishes handbooks and journals, conducts national surveys and training events, and hosts conferences.

It also awards grants and bursaries, sets professional standards (with Field Identification Skills Certificates (FISCs)), and works in an advisory capacity for governments and NGOs.

[5] It publishes a newsletter, BSBI News (ISSN 0309-930X), that is distributed to members three times a year and is available online.

The journal had a north-western European scope covering vascular plants, their taxonomy, biosystematics, ecology, distribution and conservation, as well as topics of a more general or historical nature".

The society produced the Atlas of the British Flora in 2002, the Vice-county Census Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Great Britain in 2003, and publishes the BSBI Handbooks series.