Botany

This page was written by Christopher Spry

Conserv@tion: the monthly review of wildlife conservation in Britain

'Deep Green' program to classify plants genetically and to discover their evolutionary relationships.

'English Nature', which is responsible for the UKs national botanical heritage, has a general introduction to botany and its importance.

Flora locale. Protecting indigenous wild plants and plant communities from introduced species and varieties

Huntington Botanical Gardens, botanical 'time lines'.

Internet Directory for Botany Alphabetical List, Lyon France.

Missouri Botanical Garden with links to many other sites.

Medicinal plants Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, New Mexico.

Orchid Pages, Silvia & Cedric's, UK.

Postcode Plant Database, Natural History Museum, London.

Royal Botanic gardens, Kew, London UK.

UK wild flower identification: books and webs

Keble Martin's 'Concise British Flora in Colour' London: Ebury Press, 1965. 2nd Edition
Collins Pocket Guide: 'Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe' by Fitter, Fitter & Blamey. A comprehensive guide to wild trees, shrubs and flowering plants covering the whole of Britain and Ireland, plus Europe from the Arctic to the Alps. nearly 2000 species are described, and 1450 are illustrated in colour.
Clive Stace & Hilli Thompson 'New Flora of the British Isles' is the standard work on British plant identification but it is too large and heavy to be used in the field. Paperback - 1,165 pages (May 1997) Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521589355.
The Wild Flower Page.
Identify wild flowers in the U.K. by botanical keys. A beta site by Quentin Groom.

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