The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass

by Edited by James Cullen , Sabina G. Knees , H. Suzanne Cubey

• ISBN13: 9780521761475
• ISBN10: 0521761476
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed gardener as well as to the professional botanist. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge. Although European in name, the Flora covers plants cultivated in most areas of the United States and Canada as well as in non-tropical parts of Asia and Australasia. Volume I contains accounts of all the Monocotyledons, which includes those groups known informally as the 'petaloid monocotyledons' (the Liliaceae and Amaryllidaceae in the first edition, divided here among 17 families), the grasses and sedges (Gramineae and Cyperaceae), the aroids (Araceae) and the large and diverse Orchidaceae.

Table of Contents

List of maps and figures

List of contributors to the 1st edition

Preface to the 2nd edition

Preface to the 1st edition

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Key to families

Alismataceae

Butomaceae

Limnocharitaeae

Hydrocharitaceae

Aponogetonaceae

Potamogetonaceae

Melanthiaceae

Asphodelaceae

Anthericaceae

Aphyllanthaceae

Hostaceae

Hemerocallidaceae

Blandfordiaceae

Aloaceae

Colchicaceae

Liliaceae

Alstroemeriaceae

Hyacinthaceae

Alliaceae

Convallariaceae

Asteliaceae

Trilliaceae

Asparagaceae

Ruscaceae

Philesiaceae

Smilacaceae

Agavaceae

Doryanthaceae

Nolinaceae

Dracaenaceae

Phormiaceae

Haemodoraceae

Ixioliriaceae

Amaryllidaceae

Tecophilaeaceae

Hypoxidaceae

Velloziaceae

Taccaceae

Dioscoreaceae

Pontederiaceae

Iridaceae

Juncaceae

Bromeliaceae

Commelinaceae

Gramineae

Palmae

Araceae

Acoraceae

Lemnaceae

Pandanaceae

Sparganiaceae

Typhaceae

Cyperaceae

Musaceae

Strelitziaceae

Zingiberaceae

Costaceae

Cannaceae

Marantaceae

Orchidaceae

Glossary

Index

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