AuthorStace, C.
Year2019
TitleNew Flora of the British Isles (Ed 4)
ISBN978-1-5272-26302
TypeBook/Report
How CompleteAll the vascular plants growing in the wild as known at the time.
SourceThird edition edition, 1266pp, Cambridge University Press
IllustrationsLine drawings and scanning electon-micrographs in the text.
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

The 4th edition of the standard flora.

A complete flora covering all naturalised introductions and frequent casuals as well as our native and archeophyte flora. Field and forestry crops and widely planted ornamental trees are also included. The apomictic genera: Rubus, Taraxacum and Hieracium are only treated as far as comparatively readily identifiable "sections".

The keys generally work well, but, as in previous editions, the species descriptions are very spare.

A few changes and corrections in two later printings are available as PDF’s for those with earlier copies. Some of the changes affect the keys.

Errata, Corrigenda & Comments

Name changes in the 2011 reprint can be downloaded from:

http://www.bsbi.org.uk/publications.html

Examine in the Hand ( with x8 or x10 hand lens is also useful)

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationCurrentTRACHEOPHYTAvascular plantsPlantae
For identificationCurrentMAGNOLIOPSIDAflowering plantsPlantae
For identificationCurrentPTERIDOPHYTAferns and alliesPlantae
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