A Field Guide to Aquatic Plants

A Field Guide to Aquatic Plants is a new addition to the Species Recovery Trust’s popular line of straightforward and robust field guides. As with previous guides,  A Field Guide to Grasses, Sedges and Rushes and A Field Guide to Bryophytes, the aim is to open up difficult areas of botany to beginners and professionals alike.

Aquatic plants can be a real challenge to botanists, and include some of the more difficult groups of plants such as the Water-crowfoots, Starworts and Pondweeds, alongside usual groups such as the Stoneworts.

A Field Guide to Aquatic Plants covers 250 species encountered in the UK’s lakes, ponds, rivers, ditches and ephemeral waterbodies. It includes rare species and covers wildflowers, grasses, sedges, rushes, ferns, mosses, liverworts, and stoneworts.

The book avoids keys, but includes at-a-glance summary sheets of various groups, based on leaf shape, flower colour and more detailed diagnostics. Fully illustrated with colour photographs.

A5 coil-bound with acetate covers.