New, updated edition of a classic among botanical handbooks. In twelve chapters you will experience twelve encounters with plants of Central European habitats. They present themselves in their typical environment and communities, as we know from walks in nature, from which individual flowers, grasses and ferns stand out with their immense beauty. The book will help you familiarize yourself with the variety of vegetation that surrounds us at every step, and will also reveal some of the secrets of individual plants: how they got their names, how they have helped people heal from time immemorial, and what legends people have told them.