What Reviewers are Saying about The Vegetative Key to the British Flora

A sampling of the great reviews for The Vegetative Key to the British Flora: A New Approach to Plant Identification by John Poland and Eric Clement:

Here is a significant addition to flora-making literature. It would behoove botanists in areas other than the U.K. to check out Poland & Clement. I can see myself using this work to identify various weeds in California as 17.4% of its flora of 5,867 species is alien. Now I have another dilemma. Do I file Poland & Clement with my California floras or my British-European ones? Maybe I should just get a second copy.

– Rudolf Schmid, TAXON, August 2009

Due to the novel structure of the keys, it is possible to identify a plant in three turns of a page and in under 60 seconds!….A must-have standard text for all ecologists conducting any type of vegetation survey, including Phase 1 and assessing sites for UK BAP habitats.

– Clare O’Reilly, IEEM In Practice

This book sets out to help the enthusiast identify all native plants and even some alien species on vegetative characteristics alone. … Strongly recommended for the keen amateur and professional.

– Chris Bisson, Eden Project Plant Records Manager, on Plant-Talk.org

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