Green Guide to Wild Flowers Of Britain And Europe

Bloomsbury Green Guides are portable handbooks to the most commonly found species in Britain and Europe.

A huge variety of wild flowers grow in fields, gardens, woodlands and even on roadsides, and recognising individual species can prove challenging. The Green Guide to Wild Flowers makes identifying them easy for beginners and amateur naturalists alike.

Concise descriptions include information on habitat, months in flower, as well as important features like fruit, leaf structure and stem. These are accompanied by beautiful colour illustrations of all 150 species

The detailed introduction includes colour photographs, botanical keys and information on families of wild flowers.

Autorentext

David Sutton is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University.

Zusammenfassung
Bloomsbury Green Guides are portable handbooks to the most commonly found species in Britain and Europe. A huge variety of wild flowers grow in fields, gardens, woodlands and even on roadsides, and recognising individual species can prove challenging. The Green Guide to Wild Flowers makes identifying them easy for beginners and amateur naturalists alike. Concise descriptions include information on habitat, months in flower, as well as important features like fruit, leaf structure and stem. These are accompanied by beautiful colour illustrations of all 150 species The detailed introduction includes colour photographs, botanical keys and information on families of wild flowers.

Inhalt

Introduction

How to Identify Wild Flowers
Families of Wild Flowers
The Flower Keys

The Wild Flowers

Image Gallery
Further reading
Organisations and societies

Index