What's that Flower?

Product description

What's that Flower? features over 150 common British and European species. The simple visual approach shows you how to tell similar wildflowers apart.

This book will help you explore one of the riches of the European countryside - its wonderful heritage of wildflowers. In all kinds of habitats, from hedges and meadows to pathways and pavements, a fascinating sequence of flowers unfolds each year. Big, small and amazingly diverse, they all carry out the same important job: to exchange pollen and produce seeds, so that plants can reproduce.

Many wildflower guides are organised according to plant families, but this book uses a simpler and easier approach: in the catalogue section, flowers are arranged by colour and then by size, helping you to easily home in on the particular flower that you want to identify. The flower gallery shows you how flowers fit into plant families.

There are thousands of wildflowers in Europe, and no field guide can cover them all. But if you start by spotting the commonest, your knowledge will grow fast. Before long, you will be able to recognise many beautiful and remarkable plants that add colour and variety to the great outdoors.

• Author: David Burnie
• Format: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 11.51cm x 0.79cm x 19cm
• Publisher: DK
• Publication date: 01/03/13
• ISBN: 9781409324416