Autorentext
Charles Coates read engineering at Cambridge and is now a London-based entrepreneur and advisor to digital media companies. He was driven to write Wildflowers of Britain and Ireland by the lack of a simple guide to recognising wildflowers and learning their uses while on walks in Devon with his wife and daughters.

Zusammenfassung
This book offers a completely new quick and easy way to identify almost any wildflower you may come across in Britain or Ireland. It is unique in the simplicity of its method of identification, using the colour and shape of the flower and the characteristics of the leaf, and has been extensively researched to offer a greater collection of wildflower particulars than ever before published in one portable volume. 563 species are illustrated, grouped according to characteristics, with notes to distinguish between them - including keys to size, and place and time of flowering - as well as additional material on superstition and folklore, and medicinal, culinary and other uses.