Provides guidance on the identification of all species, subspecies and varieties of water-starwort that have been reliably recorded in the wild in Europe.
The handbook is primarily intended as a field guide for use by botanists with some familiarity with identifying aquatic plants and by microscopic methods Important introductory chapters describe structure and variation and their relevance to identification, methods to aid identification, ecology, conservation, and keys. The species accounts are augmmented by line illustrations and details of key features as well as distribution maps for UK and Europe.