Europe's Alpine Flowers (eBook)

A Field Guide

Bob Gibbons (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2025
502 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-26370-0 (ISBN)

Infos

An authoritative photographic guide to Europe's spectacular Alpine floraEurope's Alpine Flowers covers the flowering plants and conifers that occur regularly on mountains and in Arctic areas north of a line that runs from the Pyrenees to Southern Romania. For many botanistsand gardenersthe alpine flora is the best it gets. There are many species adapted to a harsh climate of extreme winter cold and strong winds, including some of our most beautiful rock plants, such as gentians, saxifrages, and crocuses. These also include subtle and rare flowers that require care to discover and identify. With outstanding photographs and concise text that covers key features, this guide enables confident identification in the field.Covers the plants most likely to be seen above an elevation of 1,000 metres, concentrating on plants confined to high mountain areas of Europe and to the ArcticMore than 1,800 color photographs illustrating almost 1,800 speciesConcise, descriptive species accounts including details of habitat, altitudinal range, flowering period, and distributionFeatures easy-to-use text with minimal botanical jargon and illustrations of essential biological termsWith sections on flower identification, the alpine and Arctic environments and their habitats, and the best places to see alpine flowersComprehensive index including synonyms

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2025
• Reihe/Serie: WILDGuides
• Reihe/Serie: WILDGuides of Britain & Europe
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Acid Soil • ALPINE • Alpine chain • Alps • Arctic • Arctic fl • Basal • Basal leaves • Bracts • calcareous • Calyx • Carpathians • clusters • cylindrical • damp • Dist alpine • Dist alpine chain • Dist northward • Dist pyrenees • Downy • eastward • erect • flower heads • Flowers • Grassland • grassy • Grassy places • HAB • Hab grassy • Hab woods • Hairless • hairs • hairy • Inflorescence • Lance • leaflets • leafy • leaves • limestone • lobes • Lowland • northward • Oblong • Oval • Ovate • perennial • Pink • Pinnately • Purple • Pyrenees • Pyrenees fl • reddish • Rocks • Rocky • Rocky places • Rosette • Screes • Scrub • Sepals • shady • Shrub • solitary • species • spikes • Ss ? • stem • stony • Violet • woods • yellowish
• ISBN-10: 0-691-26370-1 / 0691263701
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-26370-0 / 9780691263700