A Pocket Guide To Anglesey Coastal Flowering Plants

Essentially, a compact version of the author’s previous book -Anglesey Flowering Plants and their Habitats. This pocket guide will help you explore the beautiful coastline of Anglesey, Wales the island’s wildflowers found in a variety of habitats, from cliffs and heathland, sand dunes and shingle beaches to mud flats and salt marshes.

The guide is aimed at a general readership and is organised according to plant families with the characteristics of selected families described. Successful flowering plant identification is no easy task and only comes with practise and experience. It is an advantage to recognise some of the major plant families such as the carrot family, the cabbage family and orchid family. A starting point is to compare the plant to the photographs in the guide. The next step is to consider the description of the plant including characteristics such as leaf arrangement and flower anatomy. Although many plants are able to live in a variety of habitats, many of those found around the coast have adapted special features enabling them to grow and survive extreme conditions. it follows that sand dunes, for example, will generally have a definite number of species, making identification a less daunting task.