📚 Wild Flowers

The botany of the meadow and the roadside: identification, the picking ethic, and the flower that no gardener put there.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject wild flowers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Drawings of British plants	Stella Ross-Craig	1948	48
	Wild flowers	John Scott Lennox Gilmour	1954	20
	How to know the wild flowers	Frances Theodora Parsons	1893	17
	Nature's garden	Neltje Blanchan	1900	15
	Boundary Waters Canoe Area	Robert Beymer	1978	14
	Wild Flowers Worth Knowing	Neltje Blanchan	1917	13
	Canadian wild flowers	Catherine Parr Traill	1869	10
	Field book of American wild flowers	F. Schuyler Mathews	1902	10
	The wild flowers of California	Mary Elizabeth Parsons	1909	10
	Flowers	Herbert S. Zim	1950	10
	How to know the wild flowers	Frances Theodora Parsons	1894	8
	Wild flowers in Britain	Robert Gathorne-Hardy	1938	8
	Wild flowers of the United States	Harold William Rickett	1966	8
	Wayside flowers	F. Schuyler Mathews	1983	8
	Familiar wild flowers	F. Edward Hulme	1877	7
	Wild flowers of Scotland	James Hunter Crawford	1897	7
	Wild flowers of the British Isles	H. Isabel Adams	1907	7
	Pioneering with wildflowers	George D. Aiken	1933	7
	The Observer's Book of Wild Flowers	W. J. Stokoe	1961	7
	A field guide to wildflowers of Northeastern and North-Central North America	Roger Tory Peterson	1968	7
	Country Diary Book of Creating a Wild Flower Garden	Jonathan Andrews	1986	7
	The wild garden	Robinson, W.	1883	6
	Wayside and woodland blossoms	Edward Step	1896	6
	Wild flowers of the Pacific coast	Leslie L. Haskin	1934	6
	The pocket guide to wild flowers	David McClintock	1956	6
	The concise British flora in colour	W. Keble Martin	1965	6
	Rocky Mountain wild flowers	A. E. Porsild	1974	6
	The Complete Book of Flower Fairies	Cicely Mary Barker	1997	6
	Common wayside flowers	Thomas Miller	1860	5
	How to know Western Australian wildflowers	William Edward Blackall	1900	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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