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Ansgar Hoppe - Field Guide to the Flowers of the Alps - 9781907807404 - V9781907807404
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Field Guide to the Flowers of the Alps

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Description for Field Guide to the Flowers of the Alps Paperback.

Explore the colourful world of alpine flowers. This practical book will help you make a quick, reliable identification of each plant, with concise descriptions and illustrations for individual plants to enable differentiation from similar species. Flowers can be identified quickly from colour and shape. The notable characters of each plant are clearly highlighted.

Covering  500 species, each with colour photographs, this compact guide is designed for walkers and botanists.   For each plant the common name, scientific name, flowering time, plant height, protected status, and distribution (habitat and altitude) are described.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pelagic Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Exeter, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907807404
SKU
V9781907807404
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3

About Ansgar Hoppe
Plants have always been important to Ansgar Hoppe. After working in forestry, he studied biology at the University of Osnabrück and gained his PhD in botany and vegetation science at the Institute of Geobotany at the University of Hanover. He learned about the plants of the Alps and other European mountains through numerous excursions. Since then he has been scientific ... Read more

Reviews for Field Guide to the Flowers of the Alps
Europeans sure know how to produce pithy guidebooks that are models of economic presentation. Hoppe’s compact guidebook is a standout. It covers Europe’s Alps, a 1200-km arc straddling (from west to east) France, Monaco, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Slovenia, including Germany to the north and Italy to the south... Hoppe is a valuable travel companion.
Rudolf Schmid
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