The Pocket Guide To Wild Flowers

With this basic beginner's field guide to North American wildflowers, all who enjoy nature and the outdoors can identify common wildflowers, from backyard weeds to dainty forest blossoms. In a logical, user-friendly, highly visual format, this new title offers key facts about 160 of the most common wildflowers and weeds, coast to coast, including Canada and Alaska. To help with identification, each of the 160 entries has both a color photograph showing the plant in context and a color illustration showing the blossom close-up. This book is the perfect starting point for anyone, young or old, interested in learning how to identify wildflowers.

Line drawings face each description of the plant's basic structural features in this guide for the amateur wildflower sleuth

An accessible guide providing comprehensive detail on 130 of the most common British species of wild flowers. A short introduction to the book includes information on the structure of flowers and how to use the guide to identify wild flowers. Species are illustrated in more than 150 of the author's remarkable colour photographs. Each species account includes a general introduction and description, flowering time and distribution. Also available in this series: Bloomsbury Pocket Guide to Insects Bloomsbury Pocket Guide to Garden Birds Bloomsbury Pocket Guide to Trees and Shrubs Bloomsbury Pocket Guide to Tracks and Signs Bloomsbury Pocket Guide to Mushrooms