Perth Plants

Reviews

"This book, like our flora, is a gem. Easily accessible, well laid-out and with informative but easy to understand text, you can use it on any ramble around Perth and chances are you'll be able to work out what plants you've found."
Kevin Thiele, Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Perth

"This field guide provides an excellent point of entry into one of the most charismatic floras on the planet, that of southwestern Western Australia... The strength of this field guide lies in presenting thousands of images (several per species) of consistently good quality... It is unsurprising that this field guide is now in its second edition, and I am sure there will be more to come on account of the great utility and quality of this practical book."
Tanja Schuster, Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 167, June 2016, pp. 59-60

Features

• This is one of the most detailed field guides available for south-west Western Australia, with species presented in their most current scientific classification.
• With multiple photos per species, the book provides a relatively easy means of identifying both native and naturalised species in the Perth region and beyond.
• Small enough to fit in a backpack for field use, but detailed enough to provide a solid identification tool, this is a very practical field guide.

Contents

Foreword to the second edition
Foreword to the first edition
Acknowledgements from the first edition
Photographic credits
Acknowledgements for this second edition
Map of Kings Park and Botanic Garden
Map of Bold Park
Introduction

History

Traditional plant usage

Plant diversity in Kings Park and Bold Park

Native bushland

Soils

Fire

Introduced species

Restoration programs

Conservation of urban remnants

Native plants in horticulture

Why do plant names change?

Systematics (classification)

The content of this book

Non-flowering plants and fungi

Layout of this book

Illustrated guide to key features of plant families

Native flora
Introduced flora
Appendix. Non-naturalised plants
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Authors

Russell Barrett worked as a Research Botanist with the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority in Perth prior to moving to the Australian National Herbarium, CSIRO, in Canberra. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Western Australia in the School of Plant Biology and a Research Associate at the Western Australian Herbarium. He grew up in the remote Kimberley region of northern Western Australia, developing an early passion for plants. An experienced taxonomist and photographer, his work has taken him to many remote parts of the state, discovering many new species of plants along the way.

Eng Pin Tay is a Herbarium Botanist at the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, Perth. Before this, he worked for 18 years with tropical plants in Singapore as Curator of the then Parks and Recreation Department and as Senior Research Officer at the Singapore Botanic Gardens and nature reserves under the National Parks Board. A keen photographer, traveller and experienced botanist, his work has taken him to many natural areas in South-East Asia and botanic gardens around the world.