Author: Keith Kirby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472949099
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Observing the plants of the forest floor – the flowers, ferns, sedges and grasses – can be a vital way of understanding our relationship with British woodland. They tell us stories about its history and past management, and can be a visible sign of progress when we get conservation right. For centuries, woodland plants have also been part of our lives in practical ways as food and medicines, and they have influenced our culture through poetry, perfume and pub signs. In this insightful and original account, Keith Kirby explores how woodland plants in Great Britain have come to be where they are, coped with living in the shade of their bigger relatives, and responded to threats in the form of storms, fires, floods, the attentions of grazing herbivores and the effects of the changing seasons. Along the way, the reader is introduced to the work of important botanists who have walked the woods in the past, collecting information on where plants occur and why. In-depth profiles of some of our most important and popular ground flora species provide extra detail and insight. Beautifully illustrated, Woodland Flowers is a must for anyone who appreciates and wants to learn more about British woodland and its plants.
Woodland Flowers
Author: Keith Kirby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472949080
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
'A meticulously researched, important and beautiful volume that goes well beyond the scope of its title to describe the hitherto neglected subject of woodland flora and place it in a broad ecological and historical context.' - Stehan Buczacki Observing the plants of the forest floor – the flowers, ferns, sedges and grasses – can be a vital way of understanding our relationship with British woodland. They tell us stories about its history and past management, and can be a visible sign of progress when we get conservation right. For centuries, woodland plants have also been part of our lives in practical ways as food and medicines, and they have influenced our culture through poetry, perfume and pub signs. In this insightful and original account, Keith Kirby explores how woodland plants in Great Britain have come to be where they are, coped with living in the shade of their bigger relatives, and responded to threats in the form of storms, fires, floods, the attentions of grazing herbivores and the effects of the changing seasons. Along the way, the reader is introduced to the work of important botanists who have walked the woods in the past, collecting information on where plants occur and why. In-depth profiles of some of our most important and popular ground flora species provide extra detail and insight. Beautifully illustrated, Woodland Flowers is a must for anyone who appreciates and wants to learn more about British woodland and its plants.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472949080
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
'A meticulously researched, important and beautiful volume that goes well beyond the scope of its title to describe the hitherto neglected subject of woodland flora and place it in a broad ecological and historical context.' - Stehan Buczacki Observing the plants of the forest floor – the flowers, ferns, sedges and grasses – can be a vital way of understanding our relationship with British woodland. They tell us stories about its history and past management, and can be a visible sign of progress when we get conservation right. For centuries, woodland plants have also been part of our lives in practical ways as food and medicines, and they have influenced our culture through poetry, perfume and pub signs. In this insightful and original account, Keith Kirby explores how woodland plants in Great Britain have come to be where they are, coped with living in the shade of their bigger relatives, and responded to threats in the form of storms, fires, floods, the attentions of grazing herbivores and the effects of the changing seasons. Along the way, the reader is introduced to the work of important botanists who have walked the woods in the past, collecting information on where plants occur and why. In-depth profiles of some of our most important and popular ground flora species provide extra detail and insight. Beautifully illustrated, Woodland Flowers is a must for anyone who appreciates and wants to learn more about British woodland and its plants.
Pharmaceutical Review
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Category : Pharmacy
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Pharmacy
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Catalogue of Botanical Prints and Drawings at the National Museums & Galleries of Wales
Author: M. H. Lazarus
Publisher: National Museum Wales
ISBN: 9780720005257
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There are over 7,000 botanical illustrations in the collections of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales, now comprehensively catalogued for the first time
Publisher: National Museum Wales
ISBN: 9780720005257
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There are over 7,000 botanical illustrations in the collections of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales, now comprehensively catalogued for the first time
An introduction to the study of botany
Author: John Lee Comstock
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs
Author: Charles Mason Hovey
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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An Introduction to the Study of Botany : Including a Treatise on Vegetable Physiology, and Descriptions of the Most Common Plants in the Middle and Northern States
Author: John Lee Comstock
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Flowers of Field, Hill, and Swamp
Author: Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey
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Category : Botanical illustration
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : Botanical illustration
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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The Young Botanist
Author: John Lee Comstock
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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An Introduction to the Study of Botany
Author: J. L. Comstock
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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