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: 9780521761550
• ISBN10: 0521761557
• 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

Resedaceae

Moringaceae

Platanaceae

Hamamelidaceae

Crassulaceae

Cephalotaceae

Penthoraceae

Saxifragaceae

Grossulariaceae

Parnassiaceae

Hydrangeaceae

Escalloniaceae

Cunoniaceae

Davidsoniaceae

Pittosporaceae

Byblidaceae

Roridulaceae

Rosaceae

Chrysobalanaceae

Minosaceae

Caesalpiniaceae

Fabaceae

Limnanthaceae

Oxalidaceae

Geraniaceae

Tropaeolaceae

Zygophyllaceae

Linaceae

Euphorbiaceae

Daphniphyllaceae

Rutaceae

Cneoraceae

Simaroubaceae

Burseraceae

Meliaceae

Malpighiaceae

Polygalaceae

Coriariaceae

Anacardiaceae

Aceraceae

Sapindaceae

Hippocastanaceae

Meliosmaceae

Melianthaceae

Greyiaceae

Balsaminaceae

Cyrillaceae

Glossary

Index

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