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

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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. The plants are grouped together by habitat which means you can easily and thoroughly explore an area of your choice. Clare teaches beginners courses on plant identification and this experience, coupled with Dr Rose's expertise in the original text, enables this revised edition to be even more useful for those new to field botany. 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.

Many wildflower guides are organised according to plant families, but this book uses a simpler and easier approach: in the catalogue section, flowers are arranged by colour and then by size, helping you to easily home in on the particular flower that you want to identify. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. It features nearly 500 photographs and over 1000 species and demonstrates the importance of the relationship between nature and humans. We’ve rounded up the best wildflower identification books so you can learn more about the beautiful and intriguing wildflowers you come across when you’re exploring the British countryside. 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’re looking to capture the beauty of wildflowers, take a look at our helpful guide on how to take photos of wildflowers. The text also includes the most up-to-date keys for certain plant groups, written especially for this book. 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. You can learn about 500 of Britain’s most exquisite wildflowers in this informative book which is divided by habitat, covering woods, downs and dales, lanes and hedgerows, meadows, marshes and streams, coast, moors and mountains and wasteland. If your species is quite a common and widespread one, you can follow that up with Wild Flower Flowcharts to guide you to the correct species.

It includes over 180 species and you can discover a wildflower’s size, habitat, flowering time, distribution and habits.All distributable profits from the RSPB's wholly owned subsidiary RSPB Sales Limited (registered office: The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 2DL, registered in England under company registration no. This guide comes in the style of a laminated leaflet rather than a whole book, making it a very light and portable item you can easily pop in your bag. The Coronation Meadows project, led by Plantlife and in partnership with The Wildlife Trusts and the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, is working to achieve this goal, and in this book renowned photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas captures the extraordinary results of this important conservation project. In all kinds of habitats, from hedges and meadows to pathways and pavements, a fascinating sequence of flowers unfolds each year.

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