A FIELD GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS OF
KWAZULU-NATAL & THE EASTERN REGION
by Elsa Pooley

This book is based on the format of the Flora Publication Trust's first
publication THE COMPLETE FIELD GUIDE TO TREES OF NATAL, ZULULAND & TRANSKEI (1993),
by Elsa Pooley.

The FIELD GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS OF KWAZULU-NATAL AND THE EASTERN REGION

offers the most comprehensive full colour guide to South African wild flowers produced on the sub-continent. It is both a standard reference work and a user-friendly field guide. It establishes a new standard with 2450 colour photographs, over 2000 species, distribution maps, drawings, common names in seven local languages, colour coding and a key to the families (632 pages).
The maps cover a large part of the summer rainfall region from East
London in the Eastern Cape to southern Mozambique, inland to eastern Free State, Gauteng, Northern Province and Mpumalanga including Lesotho and Swaziland.

The book is laid out in an easy to use field guide format and also
includes:

*colour coding
*margin leaf drawings
*points for easy field
*identification
*ecological and gardening notes
*medicinal and other uses
*scientific names and their meanings
*brief description of familes and genera
*illustrated introductory chapter on the region
*common names in English, Afrikaans, South Sotho, Swazi, Xhosa and Zulu
*A5 Format