The Wild Flower Key: A Guide to Identification in the Field, with And Without Flowers: British Isles and North West Europe

Rose, Francis

ISBN 10: 0723224188 / ISBN 13: 9780723224181

Published by Frederick Warne, 1981

About this Item

Frederick Warne 1981 First edition pictorial hardback, colour illustrations throughout in addition to numerous line drawings, 480 pp. Slight tanning to spine and part of rear board Otherwise in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wild Flower Key: A Guide to Identification in the Field, with And Without Flowers: British Isles and North West Europe
• Publisher: Frederick Warne
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0723224188
• ISBN 13: 9780723224181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • science botony

About this title

Synopsis

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

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.