Description
Photo Guide to the Wildflowers of South Africa (Revised edition) addresses the challenge of South Africa’s rich flora of around 19,000 different wildflower species. Most flower guides cover only small areas or include too few species to be useful. This countrywide guide overcomes these deficiencies by carefully selecting nearly 900 of the most common and conspicuous wildflowers occurring in South Africa and the neighbouring countries of Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia.
The English edition has been fully updated to reflect recent taxonomic changes, and is now available in Afrikaans for the first time as Fotogids tot die Veldblomme van Suid-Afrika. An easy-to-use format divides the country into three main wildflower regions – Grassland and
Savannah, Fynbos and Namaqualand – grouping species into each region. Each species is illustrated and described with common and scientific names, habitat, distribution maps, flowering times and local uses. An ingenious quick guide helps narrow options at a glance, whilst similar species are grouped for easy comparison.
