SubjectThe Vegetative Key to the British Flora: A New Approach to Plant Identification
An exciting new approach to the identification of plants without flowers or fruit
John Poland and Eric Clement
556 pages, 24 col plates, b/w line illus.
Softcover | 2009 | #179815 | ISBN-13: 9780956014405
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£24.99
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"Get this excellent book, use it, and be part of the botanical revolution!" - Clare O'Reilly, British Wildlife October 2009
"Here is a significant addition to flora-making literature. It would behoove botanists in areas other than the U.K. to check out Poland & Clement. I can see myself using this work to identify various weeds in California as 17.4% of its flora of 5,867 species is alien. Now I have another dilemma. Do I file Poland & Clement with my California floras or my British-European ones? Maybe I should just get a second copy." - Rudolf Schmid, TAXON, August 2009
"Due to the novel structure of the keys, it is possible to identify a plant in three turns of a page and in under 60 seconds!" - Clare O'Reilly, IEEM In Practice
"A must-have standard text for all ecologists conducting any type of vegetation survey, including Phase 1 and assessing sites for UK BAP habitats." - Clare O'Reilly, IEEM In Practice
"This book sets out to help the enthusiast identify all native plants and even some alien species on vegetative characteristics alone. ... Strongly recommended for the keen amateur and professional." - Chris Bisson, Eden Project Plant Records Manager, on Plant-Talk.org
"How many of us, having been given a scrap of plant consisting of just a few leaves and stem, have shrugged our shoulders and said "let's wait until it's in flower." No more! While not strictly a techniques book, this is very much the book that anyone who works with plants has been waiting for. ... Given the vagueness of having to describe leaf shape, degree of hairiness and colour compared to counting stamens of describing the colour of a flower, it is very much to the authors' credit that it works so well. Every plant ecologist should have a copy." - Peter Thomas, The Bulletin - the journal of the British Ecological Society
"Here is a significant addition to flora-making literature. It would behoove botanists in areas other than the U.K. to check out Poland & Clement. I can see myself using this work to identify various weeds in California as 17.4% of its flora of 5,867 species is alien. Now I have another dilemma. Do I file Poland & Clement with my California floras or my British-European ones? Maybe I should just get a second copy." - Rudolf Schmid, TAXON, August 2009
"Due to the novel structure of the keys, it is possible to identify a plant in three turns of a page and in under 60 seconds!" - Clare O'Reilly, IEEM In Practice
"A must-have standard text for all ecologists conducting any type of vegetation survey, including Phase 1 and assessing sites for UK BAP habitats." - Clare O'Reilly, IEEM In Practice
"This book sets out to help the enthusiast identify all native plants and even some alien species on vegetative characteristics alone. ... Strongly recommended for the keen amateur and professional." - Chris Bisson, Eden Project Plant Records Manager, on Plant-Talk.org
"How many of us, having been given a scrap of plant consisting of just a few leaves and stem, have shrugged our shoulders and said "let's wait until it's in flower." No more! While not strictly a techniques book, this is very much the book that anyone who works with plants has been waiting for. ... Given the vagueness of having to describe leaf shape, degree of hairiness and colour compared to counting stamens of describing the colour of a flower, it is very much to the authors' credit that it works so well. Every plant ecologist should have a copy." - Peter Thomas, The Bulletin - the journal of the British Ecological Society
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