Wild flowers - Martin Walters

The only comprehensive, pocket-sized photographic guide to wild flowers of Britain and Ireland.

This Collins Gem is being reissued in flexibinding, providing the durability of a hardback with the flexibility of a paperback. The stylish new cover style will enliven this and 70 other bestselling Gems.

Collins Gem Wild Flowers will enable anyone who is in the countryside, whether on a walk along the coast or in the mountains or a ramble through woodland, fields or wetlands, to identify hundreds of flower species.

Each wild flower entry includes:

Identifying photograph and description of appearance and colour

Size, type of habitat, geographical range and flowering season

Herbal medicinal uses

In addition, the introduction has sections on the parts of the flower, stem, leaf and fruit, and information on the common and scientific names of wild flowers.

'A must for car and pocket.. A great little book. Ideal for novice botanists to carry everywhere' amazon reader's review of previous edition.