How-to book on wild flowers

[rossherard]

I would be interested to know whether people would welcome a book on how to identify wild flowers - not yet another fieldguide, but a book explaining how to use fieldguides constructively, where to look for flowers and generally how to get stuck into field botany.

[treecreeper]

There might be a market for something like this. The book could cover things like how to distinguish a superior from an inferior ovary, and how to recognise a sterile (hybrid) flower.

[thebeard]

the wildflower key by francis rose covers a good few of these things, rather than just being a field guide, it helps ID flowers with use of keys as well as detailed descriptions of flowers, leaves and stems.

[Hobjob]

Originally Posted by thebeard

the wildflower key by francis rose covers a good few of these things, rather than just being a field guide, it helps ID flowers with use of keys as well as detailed descriptions of flowers, leaves and stems.

And is incomprehensible until your pesonal glossary of botany terms is quite good - I think it is poor for beginners. Just my view!

[thebeard]

Originally Posted by Hobjob

And is incomprehensible until your pesonal glossary of botany terms is quite good - I think it is poor for beginners. Just my view!

that is a good point, it does use very elaborate terms, but it has helped me in getting a deeper understanding of flower parts, etc. to be honest i find it difficult so maybe a more user friendly version would be useful!