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BOOKS

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Start to Identify Mosses 2026 Branch out in your botanical studies and discover that you can easily identify common mosses with the help of this book. Latest in the Start to Identify series, this is emphatically not another field guide! It explains how to identify mosses from scratch, featuring the 24 species you are most likely to see when out and about. Again there are no keys and no need for microscopes – a flowchart guides you through the ID process. 100 detailed photographs show you exactly what to look for, with notes on habitat and confusables to keep you right. Begin your new passion here!

The Plant Life Puzzle Book​ 2025. Puzzles, quizzes, wordgames of every kind, all about the wild plants of the British Isles. Created to appeal to everyone from children and beginners to expert adults. With 200 colour illustrations over 80 pages. Quizzes range from General Knowledge to Geography and from Who's Who to History. Lots of extra information included on identifying wild flowers, habitats, ecology and plenty more. 

Wildflower Flowcharts  2022.  To identify a common species in any of twenty groups such as Orchids, Speedwells, Buttercups and so on, just follow a simple colourful flowchart. Answer questions about your mystery plant and trace your way down the flowchart to a solution. 170 plants illustrated and described. Glossary and explanatory diagrams on the back cover. 

ISBN 978-0-9934933-6-2

Start to Identify Composite Flowers  2021 Get to grips with the (supposedly) most difficult family of all: the Composite or Daisy Family. This is the ONLY book of its kind. No intimidating keys – just flowcharts to each group within the family plus lots of illustrations and tips to get your botanising off to a flying start!

ISBN 978-0-9934933-5-5

Start to Identify Sedges & Rushes

New for 2019. The simple way to discover how to distinguish many common rushes and sedges, without lengthy keys or microscopic details. Flowcharts and tables are clear and easy to use.

ISBN 978-0-9934933-3-1

Start to Identify Grasses – new expanded edition for 2020. Learn the easy way without complicated keys. Study the field characters of just 20 of the most common grass species, and home in on the right one by using our simple flowchart. 

ISBN 978-0-9934933-4-8

Flowers in the Field was published in 2010 by Whittet Books. Click on the image to read reviews from BBC Wildlife, British Wildlife, Plantlife Magazine etc.

ISBN 978-1-8735808-0-6

 

Pocket Guide to Wildflower Families 2017. The second edition of this best-selling field-friendly guide. It helps everyone from beginners upwards to identify all the commonest flowers in Britain, by using a flowchart to 50 families.

ISBN 978-0-9934933-1-7

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2020 Wildflower Study

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