Alpine Flowers

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This handy pocket guide helps you identify 230 common Alpine flowers with ease. Perfect for mountain adventures, it’s designed to assist anyone in recognising these beautiful blooms.

A practical and accessible guide to the fascinating world of Alpine flowers, organised by colour and packed with useful details.

Crafted for non-specialists, this compact handbook is arranged by flower colour, making it simple to find your favourites while exploring the mountains. It also features a glossary explaining flower parts and an introduction that reveals the incredible survival strategies these tiny plants use to thrive at high altitudes.

Alpine expert Gillian Price shares her amazement at how these small plants endure months buried under deep snow and ice, surviving temperatures as low as -25°C. When spring arrives, delicate purple Alpine Snowbell petals emerge through the snow, thanks to a natural anti-freeze that helps them melt it.

These masters of adaptation and survival have developed remarkable abilities, such as trapping insects, storing precious water, expelling excess minerals, and even tricking insects.

Each flower entry includes a clear photograph and a concise description, along with its name in English, Latin, German, French, and Italian. You'll also find intriguing facts about the origins of some of the more unusual flower names. Plus, every flower is indexed by both its English and Latin names, so you can easily follow up on a name or learn more about a particular flower.

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