Wild Flowers of Britain: Over a Thousand Species By Photographic Identification (A Pan Original)

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Revised and expanded edition of this essential guide with full keys to more than 1600 wild plants found in Britain and Ireland. Anne has created 50 plates depicting the ten different habitats and 221 species encountered on this journey - all of them sit within readily identifiable and sometimes iconic Orkney locations. Over the course of a year, Leif goes on a journey around the UK and Ireland, highlighting the unique plants that grow there, their history and the threats that face them. The month by month feature is useful if you enjoy tracking the different species and blossoms as the seasons change.

Pagination viii, 197pp, viii, 197pp, viii, 199pp, viii, 200pp, viii, 200pp, 2pp index, viii, 200pp, viii, 204pp. Leif graduated from the University of Oxford in 2016, going on to complete a genetics PhD at Kew Gardens. His career as a botanist began at the age of six, learning to identify plants on country walks and after graduating in botany from London University, he spent most of his working life teaching there until retirement in 1981. For Francis Rose's exceptional range of ecological knowledge grants him special insights from which we can all absorb new information and stimulating ideas. Big, small and amazingly diverse, they all carry out the same important job: to exchange pollen and produce seeds, so that plants can reproduce.If you enjoy trekking through the beautiful Welsh countryside, this wildflower identification book is a great choice as it allows you to focus on one nation, so you have the specific information you need.

Featuring 40 of the most beautiful flowers from around the world, including the common wildflowers we know and love, as well as the rare and interesting. Original author Dr Francis Rose, MBE Dr Rose is one of our best-known botanists, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the lichen and bryophyte flora as well as of flowering plants, and of plant ecology and biogeography.

The Little Book of Wild Flowers is produced in association with the conservation charity Plantlife with a foreword by well-known botanist, Dr Trevor Dines. Simply tuck the waterproof back flap under each page as it's painted, to stop water from seeping through to the rest of the book. It’s worth noting, urban grasslands and wastelands are also the homes to many wildflowers so you don’t necessarily have to live in the countryside to benefit from this neat guide.

Often identification is not helped by the context in which the photogrpah is taken: sometimes times against a background of other unrelated foliage and often without any sense of scale. It also has references to other plants that look similar so you can check those to make sure you've got the right one.

Even if you don't care a jot for wild flowers, you should read it to find out how much you're missing out on - before it is too late.