Field Handbook to British and Irish Dandelions. 2021. (BSBI Handbook, 23). illus. VI, 302 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

The Field Handbook to British and Irish Dandelions: BSBI Handbook No. 23 is a completely revised edition of the now out of print BSBI Handbook No. 9 - Dandelions of Great Britain and Ireland (Dudman & Richards 1997). More than just an update or second edition, this new handbook adopts a fundamentally different approach to the previous one, using for example colour photographs throughout and relying on just conventional keys, the multi-access ones used in the earlier handbook not having proved successful. As well as new keys, the new guide includes new Taraxacum species that have been described over the last 24 years, updated taxonomy and nomenclature, updated distribution maps and identification notes.

The Handbook includes a general introduction, guidance on identification, keys, accounts of the 239 species with revised descriptions, 3 - 6 colour images per taxon, showing key features with a distribution map, and references, a glossary and an index.