Green Guide to Wild Flowers Of Britain And Europe
Language: English
Pages: 112
ISBN: B01AHXRDP4
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Bloomsbury Green Guides are portable handbooks to the most commonly found species in Britain and Europe.
A huge variety of wild flowers grow in fields, gardens, woodlands and even on roadsides, and recognising individual species can prove challenging. The Green Guide to Wild Flowers makes identifying them easy for beginners and amateur naturalists alike.
Concise descriptions include information on habitat, months in flower, as well as important features like fruit, leaf structure and stem
Beautiful colour illustrations of all 150 species
Detailed introduction includes colour photographs, botanical keys and information on families of wild flowers
purplish-pink, narrowly oval, deeply notched, equal; with 8 stamens and a 4-lobed stigma on a long style. The 4-angled capsule, 40–80mm long, splits to release masses of plumed egg-shaped, reddish-brown seeds, each l–1.2mm long. Grows in woods, hedges, amongst rocks or on cultivated ground. IVIES Ivy Hedera helix An evergreen climber with woody stems up to 30m tall and 25cm wide, anchored by clinging roots. Leaves are glossy, dark green, short-stalked and on alternate sides of stem; lower
Forget-me-nots, Mints and Nightshades All but Mints typically have alternating leaves and tubular or funnel-shaped flowers with 5 equal, joined petals. Forget-me-nots and Mints have fruits with 4 nut-like parts. Bindweeds have a capsule and Nightshades usually a berry. Mints have 4-angled stems, paired leaves and unequal petals. Figworts, Broomrapes and Bladderworts The flowers usually have 5 joined, unequal petals; sometimes 2 are completely joined. The fruits are capsules. Broomrapes lack
and 1 stigma. The oblong, nut-like fruit, 0.6–0.7mm long, retains its seed; inner fruits have a parachute of hairs. Grows in grassy places, heaths or waste ground. Mugwort Artemisia vulgaris A robust, rather sombre perennial, with grooved, reddish stems 60–120cm, or rarely 2m, tall. Leaves 50–80mm, spirally arranged on stem, deeply lobed and toothed, dark green above, silvery with dense hairs below. Flowers July– September. Reddish-brown, daisy-like flower-heads are 3–4mm long, each head formed
shady, grassy places. Greater Butterfly-orchid Platanthera chlorantha This pale woodland beauty is a perennial, with upright, leafy stems 20–40cm tall. Elliptical leaves arranged spirally on stem, two leaves up to 150mm, with smaller leaves above. With a distinctive scent, greenish-white flowers form a spike 50–200mm long, each flower 18–23mm, hermaphrodite; 3 petal-like sepals are oval to triangular; 3 petals very unequal, side petals spear-shaped, long, narrow lower petal with a spur 19–28mm
has perianth with 5–8 equal parts, 50–100 stamens and 5–15 stigmas. Fruits 9–18mm, pod like, upright or spreading apart, splitting along inner face to release many small seeds, each up to 2.5mm. Grows in ditches, damp woods, and marshes. Common Water-crowfoot Ranunculus aquatilis An amphibious perennial, submerged, floating or low-growing on land, with long, branched stems. Leaves 30–60mm, spirally arranged on stem. Submerged leaves with fine, hair-like segments; floating leaves or those on