For those looking to gain more experience it may come in useful alongside other floras: it can sometimes be helpful to have more than one reference to enable you to confirm a tentative ID by following a different key or description. Featuring all flowering plants, including trees and grasses, and ferns, this field guide to the wild flowers of Britain and northern Europe has been fully revised and updated to reflect the latest changes in taxonomy and nomenclature. It covers Britain and Ireland and contains a combination of illustrations and identification keys: those interested in wild plants may have previously seen this combination in the Francis Rose guide.

This book isn't just a 'look up the pictures to find your plant' book, it has a key-system that actually performs very well indeed when compared to other serious ID books - very pleasantly surprised by this book, it's beautiful and a powerful ID tool! Helpful information about habitats of wild flowers and useful tips to aid identification are included along with a botanical hotspots section detailing 100 rarer species. There have been some more substantial revisions to some of the keys, presumably improvements resulting from a review or from feedback that the authors have received. Following on from its successful launch in 2009, Collins Wild Flower Guide – the ultimate reference book for wild flower enthusiasts – now enters its second edition.The only slight fault, that may cause some readers a little consternation, is that the identification key is divided up by genus and spread throughout the book. The keys have all been improved on and updated (and in some cases rewritten entirely), making the book inherently more accessible.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. With over 1,000 main entries covering wildflowers, shrubs, aquatic plants, grasses, sedges and rushes Collins Complete Guide to British Wild Flowers is a definitive photographic reference guide for flower enthusiasts. The text offers a complete account of over 1,900 wild flowers of Britain and Ireland, along with a summary of their European distribution. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Comparison pages show different leaf shapes and flower clusters to enable quick and easy navigation to the right section of the book to make your identification.This is an indispensable guide for all those with an interest in the countryside, whether amateur or expert, and is beautifully packaged to lend itself both as gift or self-purchase. Following on from its successful launch in 2009, "Collins Wild Flower Guide" - the ultimate reference book for wild flower enthusiasts - now enters its second edition. This means, that you will have to thumb through the book if you do not know the genus that the plant you are trying to identify belongs to.

I have never seen such a comprehensive coverage of the natural fauna , to be found around the British Isles . This is an updated version of a book which was first published in 2009 as the 'Collins Flower Guide', which has been renamed presumably to make it clear that it is a guide to wild flowers rather than those grown in gardens! David Streeter is Reader in Ecology in the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sussex and a member of the Editorial Board of the prestigious Collins New Naturalist series. He has served on the council of the Botanical Society of the British Isles and as chairman of its Conservation Committee and he is president of the Sussex Wildlife Trust. A great book as are all Collin's guides and very, very reccommended for all botanists beginner or expert.In some cases, such as the splitting up of the Scrophulariaceae and the Liliaceae into a number of separate families, this has resulted in some unfamiliar changes although in many cases they had already been predicted by traditional taxonomy. The effort and technical expertise given in this book is due to the valiant effort of many taxonomists, and my hat comes off! Featuring all flowering plants, including trees, grasses and ferns, this brand-new field guide to the flowers of Britain and northern Europe is the most complete illustrated, single-volume guide ever published. Collins Wild Flower Guide is an indispensable guide for all those with an interest in the countryside, whether amateur or expert.