A Field Guide to Aquatic Plants

About this book

A brand new field guide and a new addition to the Species Recovery Trust's popular line of straightforward and robust field guides, aimed at opening up difficult areas of botany to beginners and professionals alike.

Aquatic plants can be a real challenge to botanists, and include some of the more difficult groups of plants, such as the Water-crowfoots, Starworts and Pondweeds, alongside usual groups such as the Stoneworts.  This guide covers 250 species encountered in the UK’s lakes, ponds, rivers, ditches and ephemeral waterbodies. It includes rare species and covers wildflowers, grasses, sedges, rushes, ferns, mosses, liverworts, and stoneworts. It is fully illustrated with colour photos and runs to 172 pages.

The book avoids keys, but includes at-a-glance summary sheets of various groups, based on leaf shape, flower colour and more detailed diagnostics. Produced as a coil-bound A5 book with acetate covers.

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