References
There is an enormous wealth of information on the plants of Greece, though not quite so much on the Eastern Aegean Islands, which floristically have more in common with neighbouring Turkey than with much of the Greek mainland. More recently, websites and other online sources have started to replace books as identification resources. This site has drawn heavily on the work of others, but hopefully will be seen as being unique in pulling so many other resources together into a single location, and thus saving anyone seeking to identify a plant from having to search in many different places for a possible answer.
The purpose of this site is to aid with the quick identification of any plant found wild or at large in the wider countryside of Lesvos. It is not intended as a replacement to a good set of reference books and does not cover such areas as identifying plants on vegetative characters (other than some woody plants, ferns etc), plant ecology, distibution and so on. For those subjects there is a great wealth of information available in good reference books and I do not seek to encourage anyone away from investing in a good set of identification guides and a working set of references.
Many books, websites and other resources were used in the making of this site and all such resources considered to be worthy of consultation are recognized, thanked with gratitude and listed here.
Field guides
Blamey, M., & C. Grey-Wilson, 1993. Mediterranean Wild Flowers. HarperCollins, London.
Polunin, O., 1980. Flowers of Greece and the Balkans. OUP, Oxford.
Floras
Davis, P.H. (ed.), 1965-2008. Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands (in 11 volumes). Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
Strid A., 2016a. Atlas of the Aegean Flora. Part 1: Text & Plates. Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem
Strid A., 2016b. Atlas of the Aegean Flora. Part 2: Maps. Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem
Strid A. & Tan K. (eds.), 1997. Flora Hellenica. Vol. 1. Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein.
Strid A. & Tan K. (eds.), 2002. Flora Hellenica. Vol. 2. Gantner Verlag, Ruggell.
Tutin, T.G., et al. (eds), 1964-1980. Flora Europaea (in five volumes). CUP, Cambridge.
Tutin, T.G., et al. (eds), 1993. Flora Europaea (Volume 1, 2nd ed.). CUP, Cambridge.
Specialist identification guides
Kühn, R., H.Æ.Pedersen & P.Cribb, 2019. Field Guide to the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean. Kew Publishing, London.
Short papers, journals and other literature resources
Chilton, L., 2005. Plant List for Lesvos. Marengo Publications, Hunstanton.
Dimopoulos, P., et al., 2013. Vascular Plants of Greece: An Annotated Checklist. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem and the Hellenic Botanical Society.
Web resources
Euro+Med Plantbase: https://europlusmed.org/
Flora Mediterranea: https://www.herbmedit.org/
Flora of Greece: https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-greece
Global Biodiversity Information Facility: https://www.gbif.org/
Greek Flora: https://www.greekflora.gr/
Mittelmeer und Alpenflora: http://www.mittelmeerflora.de
Plants of Turkey: http://turkiyebitkileri.com
Plants of the World online: http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/