Field Guide to the Introduced Flora of South Georgia

By Rebecca Upson, Bradley Myer, Kelvin Floyd and 2 more

In the late eighteenth century, the first sealing ships from England arrived in South Georgia. With them came a host of invasive plants, which set to work upending the island ecosystem. Today, forty-one non-native plant species are established in the region and, even a century later, they continue to threaten the native species and habitats of South Georgia.
This is the first field guide to comprehensively cover these species, providing full-color photographs, distribution maps, and species descriptions, plus keys to the grasses and sedges of the area. This guide is accessible even to non-botanists and also provides an opportunity for visitors to be part of a citizen science program contributing sightings and improving our knowledge of the introduced flora of South Georgia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Release date: Feb 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781842466537

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