Botany

This section covers a wide range of Botany books including Floras, registers etc, ID Guides, and handbooks to aid plant identification.

The collection includes books on wildflowers, grasses, ferns and orchids.  We also stock a great selection of books on mosses, liverworts, lichens, slime moulds and seaweeds.

Bryophytes (Mosses etc)   Ferns   Fungi   Grasses   Lichens & Seaweeds   Orchids   Vascular Plants

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The Vegetative Key to the British Flora - A new approach to plant identification. 2nd edition

The Vegetative Key to the British Flora – A new approach to plant identification. 2nd edition

Paperback / softback

Original price was: £25.00.Current price is: £23.50.

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Field Handbook to British and Irish Dandelions. BSBI Handbook no. 23

Field Handbook to British and Irish Dandelions. BSBI Handbook no. 23

Paperback / softback

Original price was: £20.00.Current price is: £19.50.

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Grasses: A guide to identification using vegetative characters

Grasses: A guide to identification using vegetative characters

Paperback

Original price was: £18.00.Current price is: £17.50.

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Britain's Orchids: A Field Guide to the Orchids of Great Britain and Ireland

Britain’s Orchids: A Field Guide to the Orchids of Great Britain and Ireland

Paperback / softback

Original price was: £20.00.Current price is: £15.00.

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Broomrapes of Britain & Ireland Book Cover

Broomrapes of Britain & Ireland. BSBI Handbook No. 22

Paperback

Original price was: £17.50.Current price is: £17.00.

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A Field Guide to Bryophytes book cover

A Field Guide to Bryophytes (spiral bound)

Spiral bound

£14.95

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The Field Key to Winter Twigs

The Field Key to Winter Twigs

Paperback

Original price was: £19.95.Current price is: £19.50.
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British and Irish Wild Flowers and Plants : A Pocket Guide

British and Irish Wild Flowers and Plants : A Pocket Guide

Paperback

Original price was: £12.95.Current price is: £7.95.

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Concise Flora of the British Isles book cover
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Concise Flora of the British Isles

flexicover

£30.00

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Sphagnum mosses AIDGAP Field key to the mosses of Britain and Ireland

Sphagnum mosses AIDGAP Field key to the mosses of Britain and Ireland

Paperback / softback

£7.00

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Cover of Wild Roses of Great Britain and Ireland: BSBI Handbook 26 showing a wild rose bush with pink flowers and hills in the background

Wild Roses of Great Britain and Ireland: BSBI Handbook 26

Paperback

£25.00

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Alchemilla BSBI book cover

Alchemilla : Lady’s-mantles of Britain and Ireland. BSBI Handbook no. 24

Paperback

Original price was: £20.00.Current price is: £19.50.

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A Supplement to The Liverwort Flora of the British Isles book cover

A Supplement to The Liverwort Flora of the British Isles

Hardback

£17.00

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Pocket Guide to Wildflower Families

Pocket Guide to Wildflower Families

Spiral bound

£8.50

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Teesdale's Special Flora book cover

Teesdale’s Special Flora: Places, Plants and People

Paperback / softback

Original price was: £14.95.Current price is: £12.95.

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Woodland Flowers: Colourful past, uncertain future. The British Wildlife Collection No. 8

Woodland Flowers: Colourful past, uncertain future. The British Wildlife Collection No. 8

Hardback

Original price was: £85.00.Current price is: £68.00.

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Frustrating Flowers and Puzzling Plants: Identifying the difficult species of Britain and Ireland

Frustrating Flowers and Puzzling Plants: Identifying the difficult species of Britain and Ireland

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Original price was: £37.95.Current price is: £34.95.

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Lichens of Ireland and Great Britain: a visual guide (2 volume set)

Lichens of Ireland and Great Britain: a visual guide (2 volume set)

Flexibound

£75.00

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Hawkweeds of South-East England. BSBI Handbook No. 20
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Hawkweeds of South-East England. BSBI Handbook No. 20

Hardback

Out of Print
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Aquatic Plants book cover

Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland

Original price was: £95.00.Current price is: £68.95.

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Front cover of Myxomycetes of the Forest: An exploration of the hidden world of the Myxomycetes, or Slime Moulds, by John Holden

Myxomycetes of the Forest: An exploration of the hidden world of the Myxomycetes, or Slime Moulds

Hardback

£29.95

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Lichens of Britain and Ireland: An Introductory Guide

Lichens of Britain and Ireland: An Introductory Guide

Paperback / softback

Original price was: £25.00.Current price is: £19.95.

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Cover of Flora of Brecknockshire

Flora of Brecknockshire

Hardback

£40.00

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Brambles of Scotland. BSBI Handbook no. 25

Brambles of Scotland. BSBI Handbook no. 25

Paperback

£20.00

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The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature's Wild Harvests

The Forager’s Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests

Paperback / softback

Original price was: £15.95.Current price is: £10.95.

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Alchemilla: Field guide to the Lady's-mantles of the British Isles

Alchemilla: Field guide to the Lady’s-mantles of the British Isles

Paperback

£10.50

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BSBI British and Irish Hieracium book cover

Monograph of British and Irish Hieracium section Foliosa and section Prenanthoidea. BSBI Handbook no. 21

Hardback

Original price was: £30.00.Current price is: £29.00.

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Plant Atlas 2020 book cover

Plant Atlas 2020 : Mapping Changes in the Distribution of the British and Irish Flora (2 Volume Set)

Hardback

Original price was: £132.00.Current price is: £95.00.

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Field Guide to Coastal Wildflowers of Britain, Ireland and Northwest Europe

Field Guide to Coastal Wildflowers of Britain, Ireland and Northwest Europe

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Original price was: £20.00.Current price is: £15.00.

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The Fern Guide: A Field Guide to the Ferns, Clubmosses, Quillworts and Horsetails of the British Isles

The Fern Guide: A Field Guide to the Ferns, Clubmosses, Quillworts and Horsetails of the British Isles

Paperback / softback

Original price was: £11.00.Current price is: £10.50.

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Urban Plants

Urban Plants

Hardback

Original price was: £40.00.Current price is: £32.00.

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Harrap’s Wild Flowers 2nd Edition

Harrap’s Wild Flowers 2nd Edition

Paperback / softback

Original price was: £20.00.Current price is: £14.95.

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Trees Collins New Naturalist Book Cover

Trees (Collins New Naturalist Library)

Hardback

Original price was: £65.00.Current price is: £47.00.

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Trees of Britain and Ireland

Trees of Britain and Ireland

Paperback / softback

Original price was: £20.00.Current price is: £14.95.

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Start to Identify Composite Flowers: Daisy, Dandelion, Thistle

Start to Identify Composite Flowers: Daisy, Dandelion, Thistle

Paperback / softback

£8.95

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