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., R. Fitter & A. Fitter, 2003. Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland. A & C Black, London.
Johnson, O. & D. More, 2004. Collins Tree Guide. William Collins, London.
Peterson, R.T. & M. McKenny, 1968. A Field Guides to Wildflowers - Northeastern/North-central North America. Houghton Mifflin co., New York.
Poland, J. & E. Clement, 2009. The Vegetative Key to the British Flora. BSBI, London.
Rose, F. & C. O'Reilly, 2006. The Wild Flower Key (Revised & expanded ed.). Warne, London.
Streeter, D., C. Hart-Davies, A. Hardcastle, F. Cole & L. Harper, 2016. Collins Wild Flower Guide 2nd ed. William Collins, London.


Floras


Bramwell, D. & Z. Bramwell, 2001. Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands. Editorial Rueda, Madrid.
Cullen, J., et. al., eds., 1995. The European Garden Flora Volume IV Dicotyledons (Part II). CUP, Cambridge.
Cullen, J., et. al., eds., 1997. The European Garden Flora Volume V Dicotyledons (Part III). CUP, Cambridge.
Cullen, J., et. al., eds., 2011. The European Garden Flora (2nd ed.) Volume I: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae. CUP, Cambridge.
Cullen, J., et. al., eds., 2011. The European Garden Flora (2nd ed.) Volume II: Casuarinaceae to Cruciferae. CUP, Cambridge.
Cullen, J., et. al., eds., 2011. The European Garden Flora (2nd ed.) Volume III: Resedaceae to Cyrillaceae. CUP, Cambridge.
Cullen, J., et. al., eds., 2011. The European Garden Flora (2nd ed.) Volume IV: Aquifoliaceae to Hydrophyllaceae. CUP, Cambridge.
Cullen, J., et. al., eds., 2011. The European Garden Flora (2nd ed.) Volume V: Boraginaceae to Compositae. CUP, Cambridge.
Lousley, J.E., 1971. The Flora of the Isles of Scilly. David & Charles, Newton Abbot.
Parslow, R. & I. Bennallick, 2017. The New Flora of the Isles of Scilly. Parslow Press, Cornwall.
Preston, C.D., D.A. Pearman & T.D. Dines, 2002. New Atlas of the British & Irish Flora. OUP, Oxford.
Saurbier, H, F. Cabrera Calixto & T. Muer, 2023. Flora Vascular de Canarias. Publicaciones Turquesa, Tenerife.
Sell, P. & G. Murrell, 1996. Flora of Great Britain & Ireland Volume 5 Butomaceae-Orchidaceae. CUP, Cambridge.
Sell, P. & G. Murrell, 2006. Flora of Great Britain & Ireland Volume 4 Campanulaceae-Asteraceae. CUP, Cambridge.
Sell, P. & G. Murrell, 2009. Flora of Great Britain & Ireland Volume 3 Mimosaceae-Lentibulariaceae. CUP, Cambridge.
Sell, P. & G. Murrell, 2014. Flora of Great Britain & Ireland Volume 2 Capparaceae-Rosaceae. CUP, Cambridge.
Sell, P. & G. Murrell, 2018. Flora of Great Britain & Ireland Volume 1 Lycopodiaceae-Salicaceae. CUP, Cambridge.
Stace, C., 2019. New Flora of the British Isles. 4th ed. C&M Floristics, Suffolk.
Walters, S.M., et. al., eds., 1984. The European Garden Flora Volume II Monocotyledons (Part 2). CUP, Cambridge.
Walters, S.M., et. al., eds., 1986. The European Garden Flora Volume I Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, Angiospermae - Monocotyledons (Part 1). CUP, Cambridge.
Walters, S.M., et. al., eds., 1989. The European Garden Flora Volume III Dicotyledons (Part I). CUP, Cambridge.


Specialist identification guides

Hartmann, H.E.K. (Ed.), 2017. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae Vol. 1 A-G. (2nd Ed.) Springer, Berlin. Hartmann, H.E.K. (Ed.), 2017. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae Vo2. 1 H-Z. (2nd Ed.) Springer, Berlin.


Short papers, journals and other literature resources


Garcia-Mendoza, A., 2000. Revision Taxonomica de las Especies Arborescentes de Furcraea (Agavaceae) en Mexico y Guatemala. Bol. Soc. Bot. Mexico 66: 113-129.
Klak, C., P. Hanácek & P V. Bruyns, 2024. Phylogeny and reclassificaton of Lampranthus (Ruschieae, Aizoaceae). Taxon 73: 818-853.
Verloove, F. & G.F. Smith, 2024. An update on Agave and Furcraea (Agavaceae; Asparagaceae sensu lato) escaped and naturalised in Madeira. Bradleya 42: 186-196.


Web resources


BSBI Maps: https://bsbi.org/recording/maps-data/distribution
Euro+Med Plantbase: https://europlusmed.org/
Global Biodiversity Information Facility: https://www.gbif.org/
Plants of the World online: http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/