This book has something for everyone who enjoys plants: a physical description of the areas covered, family and generic keys, helpful line drawings, a glossary, and lots of color photographs. Of the 949 species included, 588 are pictured, and correspond in numbered sequence to the descriptions in the main text. In a few brief paragraphs per species, the authors give (under a common name followed by the Latin) a description, occurrence, habitat data, distribution, flowering times, and where necessary, synonyms and/or names from other treatments that differ from those of these authors.