New Flora of the British Isles - 9780521707725

Since its first publication in 1991, New Flora of the British Isles has become established as the standard work on the identification of the wild vascular plants of the British Isles. The Flora remains unique in many features, including its full coverage of all our wild plants, its user-friendly organisation, and its specially compiled keys and descriptions. All native, naturalised and crop plants, and all casual plants recorded five or more times since 1930, are included.

In the 12 years since the appearance of the Second Edition, many new data and ideas relating to our wild flora have become available. More than 160 species have been added to the text, so that 4800 taxa are now covered in varying degrees of detail. This is the first British Flora to incorporate the new molecular system of classification based on DNA sequences, a scheme that is expected to endure for centuries to come. The whole text has been updated and new features have been introduced. All the line-drawings and half-tones have been re-assessed and enhanced, and new ones have been added, so that now over 1600 species are illustrated on 180 pages. The distributions of all the taxa have been rewritten and there has been an overhaul of the designation of degrees of rarity, with the introduction of a third, less rare, category.

These revisions should ensure that this third Edition remains the essential reference source for all taxonomists, ecologists, conservationists, plant hunters and biogeographers, whether they be researchers, teachers, students or amateurs.

`Stace's Flora is a mine of information, a model of clarity and organization, and one that no serious Irish or British botanist should be without.' The Irish Naturalist Journal

`The New Flora is a remarkable work. I for one have nothing but admiration for the accuracy of the text.' British Wildlife

`Clive Stace's Flora is a tour de force, a mine of information and absolutely indispensable for anyone who has more than a passing interest in British plants.' Trends in Ecology and Evolution

`The second edition of this remarkable and now indispensable Flora of the vascular plants of the British Isles is much improved over the 1991 edition. I regret this edition was unavailable when I prepared my article "Some desiderata to make Floras and other types of works user (and reviewer) friendly", which compared 24 Floras. Stace's would have ranked "Among the very best of Floras".' Taxon

`Clive Stace has become a household name amongst British field botanists since his first edition. I would recommend this new edition to any serious botanist.' Scottish Wildlife

`...an authoritative and user-friendly Flora that will be our standard for taxonomy, nomenclature, and identification for some time to come.' Watsonia, Journal of the Botanical Society of the British Isles