The FSC Describing flowers guide describes and illustrates the main characters used in identification. These include:

• Overview of flowers: whorl calyx sepals petals stamens carpels
• Flower symmetry: actinomorphic and zygomorphic
• Perianth: anther filament; shape and arrangement
• Carpel: stigma style ovary ovule; inferior and superior ovaries
• Leaf: venation arrangement position margins bases shape stipules; simple and compound leaves

Text on the reverse side includes a checklist of the main characters you can record in the field. We've also included a guide to writing a floral formula and to describing fruits (berry drupe achene nut capsule etc) plant form (herb shrub tree) organs of vegetative reproduction (stolon rhizome etc) and inflorescence (spike panicle rhizome etc).