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).