The Wild Flower Key : A Guide to Plant Identification in the Field, With and Without Flowers - Softcover

Rose, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0723224196 ISBN 13: 9780723224198

Publisher: Frederick Warne, 1981

Synopsis

A guide to the wild flowers of the British Isles and North West Europe, describing 1400 species.

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About the Author

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. 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. This remains his most popular book, which took over 20 years to write and represents a lifetime's experience of plant identification. Author of revised and expanded second edition Clare O'Reilly Clare O'Reilly (previously Coleman) is a freelance botanist and writer who left her career as an environmental lawyer in order to revise this book. She recently gained an MSc in Plant Taxonomy but was a self-taught amateur botanist for many years. Her passion for plants began after winning a wild flower-in-a-vase competition, aged seven. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Frederick Warne
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0723224196
• ISBN 13: 9780723224198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480