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Alpine Flowers Nature Guide

Alpine Flowers Nature Guide from Kompass, specialist in publishing walking maps of central Europe, presented in a handy pocket format and showing colour photos of 70 alpine flowers, each with a description.Information on each flower gives its Latin name, family, character (size, colour, leaf pattern, etc), flowering time, habitat, distribution and special remarks (poisonous, medicinal, and/or protected).Additional information includes notes on the altitude belts of alpine areas, various habitats (rock crevices, scree, etc), plant parts including flower shapes and leaf margins, etc. The guide has two indexes, arranged by the English and the Latin names.The guide includes alpine flowers found not only in the Alps but also in other parts of Europe including the Pyrenees, the Carpathians, the Apennines and parts of northern Europe.