The Wild Flora of Kew Gardens: a cumulative checklist from 1759

This unique book details all plants that have ever been recorded growing in a wild state within the Gardens or its periphery (including the towpath, Kew Green, Old Deer Park), and all natives cultivated in formal beds or other plantings, either currently or in the past, for which there is reliable documentation, dating back to the first record of 1759.
Nearly 2,000 taxa are included, with citation of literature records and herbarium specimens and accompanying colour photographs. The book notes the past and present distribution of wild species within the Gardens, and demonstrates the extent to which the wild flora of the Kew estate has changed over its 250 years.
Extensively illustrated in colour.
Paperback
9781842464014

Tom Cope studied taxonomy at Manchester University under Prof. C.A. Stace, after which he was appointed to the Grass Section of the Herbarium in 1974. Tom is co-author of the recent BSBI Grass Handbook and he has contributed accounts of grasses to several major Floras, including Pakistan, Somalia, Arabia, Egypt, southern tropical Africa and Madeira.