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Wild Flowers of Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park (Spanish Pyrenees)

José Luis Benito Alonso (2014)

Language: English. Translated by: José Vicente Ferrández Palacio, Botanist and English Teacher

Collecction: Essential Guides of Flora, nº 1

Paperback, 17 x 23,6 cm, 96 color pages. With 275 full-colour plates

Edited by: Jolube Consultor Botánico y Editor

ISBN: 978-84-941996-5-3. eISBN: 978-84-94356-1-6-2

 

This field guide is illustrated with more than 275 full-colour plates. It shows 174 singular flowers that are present in Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park (Spanish Pyrenees), with 128 profiles, ordered according to 8 ecosystems, each one containing a larger photograph and some smaller ones showing details of the leaves, fruits, flowers or other related species. They are complemented with enjoyable texts where the plant’s special traits, curiosities, origin of its name, uses, ecology, geographical distribution, etc., are detailed. This is the first guide to the flowers of Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park published in English.

 

Version française Versión española

 

 

THE AUTHOR:

José Luis Benito Alonso is PhD in Biology from the University of Barcelona. He has worked for 13 years at the Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, CSIC in Jaca.

He is an independent botanical consultant, specialized in flora and vegetation , habitat cartography, conservation and climate change studies. He is also an editor of botany books and a plant photographer.

 

 

 

Book excerpt

 

Save €6 by buying these two english books together COMBO27: Orchids of Central Spain + Wild Flowers of Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park (Spanish Pyrenees), only €45,95