Field Studies Council Guide to Describing Flowers
Field Studies Council Guide to Describing Flowers
Product code: HE1008024
Product Description
The Field Studies Council flowers guide describes and illustrates the main characters used in identification. These include:
- Overview of flowers: whorl, calyx, sepals, petals, stamens, carpels
- Flower symmetry: actinomorphic and zygomorphic
- Perianth: anther, filament; shape and arrangement
- Carpel: stigma, style, ovary, ovule; inferior and superior ovaries
- Leaf: venation, arrangement, position, margins, bases, shape, stipules; simple and compound leaves
Text on the reverse side includes a checklist of the main characters you can record in the field. We've also included a guide to writing a floral formula, and to describing fruits (berry, drupe, achene, nut, capsule, etc), plant form (herb, shrub, tree), organs of vegetative reproduction (stolon, rhizome, etc) and inflorescence (spike, panicle, rhizome, etc).
The Field Studies Council flowers guide describes and illustrates the main characters used in identification. These include:
- Overview of flowers: whorl, calyx, sepals, petals, stamens, carpels
- Flower symmetry: actinomorphic and zygomorphic
- Perianth: anther, filament; shape and arrangement
- Carpel: stigma, style, ovary, ovule; inferior and superior ovaries
- Leaf: venation, arrangement, position, margins, bases, shape, stipules; simple and compound leaves
Text on the reverse side includes a checklist of the main characters you can record in the field. We've also included a guide to writing a floral formula, and to describing fruits (berry, drupe, achene, nut, capsule, etc), plant form (herb, shrub, tree), organs of vegetative reproduction (stolon, rhizome, etc) and inflorescence (spike, panicle, rhizome, etc).
