Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Highveld: Also Useful in Adjacent Grassland and BushveldThis field guide focuses on the wild flowers of the Highveld and surrounding areas. Designed as a practical identification handbook, it aims to help nature-lovers in the field identify the various wild flowers they encounter. The 763 species described in this book are divided into six colour groups, so that colour is the first clue to the flower's identity. Within the colour group the species are organized into families, each defined by its diagnostic characters. Flowers occurring in more than one colour group can be found in each relevant group. |
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musm | 4 |
How to use this guide | 14 |
White or whitish flowers | 30 |
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annual herb anthers Asteraceae autumn axillary axils basal rosette base bipinnate blade brown bushveld calyx carpels clusters Compare corolla covered with hairs Cyperaceae Deciduous densely covered Dipcadi disturbed places drupe egg-shaped Erect perennial herb Fabaceae family Herbs fleshy Flowers regular Fruit a capsule globose grass Grassland Grassland and bushveld greenish greyish growing in tufts hairless hairy Harv herb herbaceous Includes flowers Inflorescence involucral bracts leaf leaflets Leaves alternate Leaves opposite Leaves stalked Leaves stalkless LILIACEAE lobes lower surface Magaliesberg Mainly Pretoria/Magaliesberg region midrib moist places much-branched Ovary Ovary superior perennial Perennial growing perennial rootstock perennial shrublet perianth perianth segments petals pink POACEAE Pods Pretoria purplish racemes ray flowers reddish rhizome rocky places rocky ridges rough hairs sepals short stalks slender Sond sparsely branched species spikelets spikes Spring Spring-summer Stamens stipules subsp succulent Summer taproot terminal tips tree trifoliolate tube tuberous umbels unbranched usually VERBENACEAE whitish Widespread woody rootstock yellow