Wild Flowers of the Limpopo Valley
This beautifully illustrated field guide with its wealth of information will contribute towards the understanding of a group of plants so striking, and individually beautiful, yet so often overlooked and disregarded as ‘weeds’.
Author: Retha van der Walt
Publisher: Retha van der Walt
ISBN: 978-0-639771-56-4
Extent: 464 pages Format: Softcover, Thread sewn, Full-colour throughout
This beautifully illustrated field guide with its wealth of information will contribute towards the understanding of a group of plants so striking, and individually beautiful, yet so often overlooked and disregarded as ‘weeds’. It represents a major contribution in support of the inadequate existing literature on the subject and will be equally useful for the general public and career conservationists.
This colour-coded, easy-to-use field guide includes:
- Brief descriptions for more than 400 herbaceous and semi-woody species, including information on the plant’s habitat, conservation status, etc.
- More than 700 colour photographs as a further aid to identification.
- Distribution maps including South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.
- Detailed margin leaf drawings.
- Origin of scientific names.
- English and Afrikaans common names.
- Indexes to scientific and common names
- Detailed glossary and glossary plate.
- Botanical terminology English/Afrikaans.
- Step-by-step guide to the collection of plant material.
- Information on the region.
