The World Encyclopedia of Wild Flowers and Flora: An authorative guide to more than 750 wild flowers of the world. Beautifully illustrated with over ... watercolours, photographs and maps

by Michael Lavelle

A stunning visual guide to more than 750 of the most important wild fowers, trees, shrubs, herbs, cati, grasses, mosses, aquatic plants and weeds.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published May 25, 2007

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every lover of flowers should have this tome. 512 pages of delight. You could spend the rest of your life referring back to this book and still not learn everything it contains. For instance just the plant vocabulary: carline: leaves attached to or arising from the stem; cleistogamous: self-pollination occurring in the closed flower; dioecious: with male and female flowers on different plants and so much more. Learn how Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist Carl von Linne' (1707-78) instigated a modern system of classification. Flower and Flora facts: flowers that are pollinated by the wind have no need to attract animals/insects and therefore tend not to be showy; plants pollinated by flies tend to smell bad; there are more than 80,000 species of trees on earth and again...so much more. Along with 3800 beautifully exquisite illustrations, you are also treated to where each plant originated, height and spread, habit and form, leaf shape, how it is pollinated and an introduction that includes all kinds of interesting notes about each wild flower such as if it is used medicinally. A must have for every gardener.