The Flora of Hampshire

by Anne Brewis, Paul Bowman, Francis Rose

This totally new and much needed work on the County's flora - published in association with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust - is the first comprehensive study for nearly a century.
Excluding the Isle of Wight, it contains over 1750 species of vascular plants including some non-indigenous speces as well as subspecies, varieties and hybrids. In addition, condensed accounts of the lichens (590 taxa) and bryophytes (459 taxa) - groups in which the county is particularly rich - have been contributed by Francis Rose with Ken Sandell and Alan Crundwell respectively.
As in Townsend's Flora of Hampshire (1884), there are introductory chapters on Structure and Geology; Climate; Habitats; and an up-to-date Comparison of Hampshire's Flora with some other southern Counties (including the Isle of Wight) - all by Francis Rose. There are also chapters on Conservation of the Flora (with a complete list of nature reserves) by Peter Brough and Paul Bowman; Some earlier Workers on the Hampshire Flora by David Allen; and Botanical Recording by Paul Bowman. The Flora ends with an extensive Bibliography and References and a fully comprehensive Index.
The principal authors are all experienced Hampshire botanists with an intimate knowledge of its flora.

386 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

Lady Anne Brewis, daughter of Roundell Cecil Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, was an English botanist. As a child, Brewis had spent long holidays studying the orchids on Noar Hill, near Selborne. This led her to study the works of Gilbert White, and eventually to a degree in Zoology at Somerville College, Oxford. Marriage took her to many localities before returning to Hampshire on her husband's retirement. Over the next 27 years she would meticulously catalogue hundreds of species, give freely of her time to whoever was interested and co-author the definitive guide to Hampshire's plant life.