Book - Wild Flowers Of Britain & Ireland

[Lancashire Lad]

Stumbled across this book today: -

Domino Guides - "Wild Flowers Of Britain & Ireland"
A new guide to our wild flowers, over 5000 colour illustrations, 1600 maps.

Authors, Marjorie Blamey, Richard Fitter, Alastair Fitter

Paperback, just slightly larger than A5 size. 482 pages.

First published 2003, A & C Black, Publishers Limited, ISBN 0-7136-5944-0

Price £16.99

Have to say this book is absolutely fantastic. It is beautifully and precisely illustrated, the text per species is concise but contains all the necessary information, and the distribution of each species is shown on a small GB & Ireland map, which also indicates local abundance and increasing/decreasing trends.

The book is specific to Britain & Ireland, so is not diluted with european species, and covers Wild Flowers, Trees & Tall Shrubs, Aquatic Plants, Grasses Sedges & Rushes, Ferns Horsetails and Clubmosses, Scilly & Cornwall specialities, and Irish specialities.

I already have "Wildflowers of Britain & Northern Europe" by the same trio of authors, but this Britain & Ireland specific book is much more comprehensive.

I would urge anyone with an interest in British/Irish Wildflowers to seek out a copy. - I would be surprised if you don't buy it once you've seen it.

Regards
Mike.

[Gypsy Orchid]

Thaks for the info Mike sounds interesting will check it out
Sylv

[aeshna5]

Agree it's a superb book, one that I regularly use.

[RobSutton]

Originally Posted by aeshna5

Agree it's a superb book, one that I regularly use.

I'd second that, the little summary table/keys make it more useful. This and the Wild Flower Key (Francis Rose) would be my top recommendations for flower guides. As always there will be new books on the market soon - Collins, for example, have a new Flower Guide by David Streeter in the pipeline.