With comprehensive, up-to-date coverage sorted by habitat, this is the essential guide to the Western Alps for students, professional botanists, scientists, gardeners, and plant-enthusiasts alike.

The Western Alps, a large region of dramatic scenery and varied habitats, is noted for its biodiversity and beauty. From woodlands and forests, through colorful hay meadows, to the higher alpine elevations, the region boasts one of the most diverse and colorful mountain floras found anywhere on earth. This book is a celebration of the great biological diversity found in one of the most beautiful and inviting regions of Europe.

This comprehensive guide features the fascinating flora to be found across the region in the French Alps, the Massif Central and Cevennes, the Swiss Jura Mountains and the Italian Alps east to Como and Bergamo. Illustrated throughout with over 2000 photographs, each species profile includes nomenclature, description, dimensions, habitat, flowering times, and distribution.
 

Christopher Grey-Wilson’s distinguished career has included many years as a botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, participation in botanical expeditions the world over, and editorship of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, The Plantsman, and The Alpine Gardener. His books include Guide to the Flowers of Western China, Cyclamen, The Genus Meconopsis, The Illustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe, and Mediterranean Wild Flowers. He holds the Royal Horticultural Society’s highest accolade, the Victoria Medal of Honour.