Harrap's Wild Flowers - (Bloomsbury Naturalist) 2nd Edition by Simon Harrap (Paperback)

About the Book

This comprehensive work covers every species wild flower that you might encounter in Britain and Ireland, highlighting key features to allow identification with confidence.

Book Synopsis

This comprehensive work covers every species wild flower that you might encounter in Britain and Ireland, highlighting key features to allow identification with confidence.

Wild flower identification may seem extremely challenging to those not familiar with them, but this brilliant photographic guide changes that forever.

Packed with superb photography throughout, including stunning portraits and close-ups of key features along with succinct, no-nonsense text, this book will help you to identify any wild flower that you may encounter in Britain and Ireland. This second edition has been revised, updated, and expanded to become a truly comprehensive work, covering all but the most extreme rarities in the British Isles.

This book packs a true floral punch. The pages have been designed to ensure that the photographs are reproduced at a sensible size while retaining a readable text. Key features are highlighted in boxes throughout the book, while details of confusion species and look-alikes are given where relevant. Accurate and fully updated colour maps based on the national plant-mapping scheme are provided for each species.

In its first edition, this guide set a new standard for photographic flower guides. This new edition expands on that work, and is an essential field reference for anyone interested in our wild flowers.

Review Quotes

"A wonderfully comprehensive yet concise guide." --The Guardian

"This user-friendly text includes all the details that you need to confidently name the plant ... This handy guide is great for beginners and an essential reference for experts." --British Wildlife

"Distribution map, pictures of leaves, seed pods and flowers, and a handy pictorial index make this book a must-have." --Grow Your Own

About the Author

Simon Harrap is a professional writer, photographer and tour leader based in Norfolk. He leads botanical and nature trips in the UK, and birdwatching tours throughout the world. His previous books include Orchids of Britain and Ireland, Pocket Guide to Orchids of Britain and Ireland, Flowers of the Norfolk Coast and Flowers of the Norfolk Broads (all of which are illustrated with his own photographs), as well as Where to Watch Birds in Britain (co-authored with Nigel Redman).