Field Guide to Wild Flowers of Southern Europe

by Paul Harcourt Davies, Bob Gibbons

This identification guide describes many of the plants of Spain, Portugal, southern France, Italy, and Malta. Superb color photographs, line-drawings, and a clear concise text describe 1,200 species that can be found in the region. Detailed descriptions enable easy identification. There is also information on habitat, distribution and flowering time, and excellent coverage of the more conspicuous species including every species of orchid found in the area.

320 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1993

Reviews

[Scott Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fairly good, compact field guide to wild flowers of Southern Europe (covers Italy, Spain, Portugal and southern France). Most helpful to me were the introductory comments on the areas of botanical interest, detailing the best botanical areas in this region e.g. the Algarve in Portugal, the Ronda-Grazalema & Picos de Europa in Spain, and the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardina. However the actual floral coverage was rather weak. The exception is monocots, especially orchids . . . this guide includes ever species recorded in the area!

[Kim · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is useless. Full of information that is almost completely inaccessible. It is a shame that the authors put so much time into compiling a field guide that can not be utilized.