A new key to wild flowers

This user-friendly, original key provides an easy route to the accurate naming of flowers, trees, grasses, sedges, rushes and ferns in the British Isles. No expert botanical knowledge is expected and with a little practice the key can quickly be mastered. This handy book is not a descriptive flora, but it is intended for students of all ages, and for all who like to know the names of flowers but who are discouraged by more sophisticated, wordy floras. The key has its origins in courses run by the author where a simple field key was required. Subsequent testing through the AIDGAP (Aids to Identification in Difficult Groups of Animals and Plants) organisation further refined the key as a working tool for field and bench use. In this revised edition the plant names have been brought in line with those used in Stace's New Flora of the British Isles. The Field Studies Council administers the AIDGAP project which developed and tested this key. Publication was through formal cooperation between AIDGAP and the Cambridge University Press. When the book went out of print in 2003 the Syndicate of the Press of the University of Cambridge kindly granted permission for this reprint.