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 261 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. It also includes plants more associated with mire edges and damp meadows: included here because the author has sometimes found them near water edges and thus of relevance to those surveying aquatic and riparian habitats. For two families (Oenanthe and Persicaria) where it has been hard to draw a line between aquatic, riparian, and damp meadow habitats, all relevant species have been included. Most common invasive species have also described.

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.

Contents:

• Introduction – using the book and it’s scope 1-2
• Identification tables 3-38
• Vascular Plants and Pteridophytes (Flowers and Ferns) 39-147
• Bryophytes (Mosses/Liverworts) 148-159
• Charophytes (Stoneworts) 160-169
• Image credits 170-172
• Species index (Latin and English) 173-176

A5 coil-bound with acetate covers.

ISBN: 9781999873264

SKU: 8010000037120