Les Plantes Protegees d’Ile de France

Les Plantes Protegees d’Ile de France groups the flowering plants and ferns by habitat and covers the area around Paris, including the Massifs de Fontainebleau and Rambouillet. Paperback

This book presents the 202 species of protected plants in Île-de-France. Ile-de-France is often assimilated to the Parisian conurbation. However, this region is still three-quarters rural and forested. Although of modest size, it hosts some sectors of high naturalistic value.

The texts specify the ecology of these protected plants, their status and their history. The plants are illustrated by numerous photographs taken in nature, and by a distribution map of ancient and current localities. The appendices contain an impressive mass of information on the status of plants within each commune of the region. A remarkable tool for the preservation of these plants (water, peat bogs, meadows, moors etc …), many of which are threatened.

French Language

Summary :

1. water plants
2. Plants in temporarily flooded open areas
3. bog plants
4. Plants in “reedbeds” and sedge meadows
5. prairie plants
6. Plants in calcareous lawns
7. Plants in lawns, forest edges and crops on sandy-calcareous soils
8. Heathland and lawn plants developed on acidic sandy soils
9. Plants, scree, rocks and walls
10. Plants of moist to swamp forests
11. Acidophilous or neutrophilic forest plants
12. Plants of dense limestone forests
13. Plants of light calcareous and thermophilic forests
14. Balance sheet