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Old 07-12-2005, 02:13 PM
henrya henrya is offline
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Re: identifying wild flowers

Another good book is The Wildflowers of the British Isles by Garrad and Streeter.

I echo Wildone's advice to try and key the flowers out in the field. Nothing is more annoying than to get a perfect picture of a flower, but when you get home you find from the book that the only way to tell the very common one from the very rare one is to look at the shape of the leaves at the bottom of the stem - not in your picture!

henrya
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