| Authors | John Poland & Eric Clement |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9780956014429 |
| Publisher | John Poland |
| Pages | 550 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Size | 149 x 211 x 21 mm |
| Images | Colour images and line drawings |
| Year published | 2020, reprint 2023 |
This greatly revised and updated edition of the The Vegetative Key to the British Flora offers a striking new approach to the identification of nearly 3.000 wildflowers, grasses, sedges, trees, shrubs, ferns and fern-allies to be found native, naturalised or casual in the British isles.
Many books are available for tracing the name of a vascular plant that is in flower, fruit, or spore, but here, for the first time, is a manual that enables reliable identification at any stage of growth beyond that of the cotyledons.
This guide uses a minimal number of technical terms. It allows any diligent enthusiast to reliably name a plant, normally within three turns of pages and often within a minute of study (due to the novel construction of the keys, where entry is possible at any user selected point).
It provides:
- short and user-friendly keys to groups of similar plants, many restricted to just one page;
- many line illustrations to clarify potential difficulties;
- colour plates to highlight variation in clear morphology and simple anatomy;
- a glossary and a detailed summary of important characters.
The The Vegetative Key to the British Flora is an essential identification aid, invaluable to all amateur and professional botanists, ecologists, gardeners, foresters and naturalists.
There is no similar book: it opens the door to a fascinating new world, allowing the reader to name a plant that was previously unnameable.
