The blue and white of the Monaghan county flag has its own natural counterpart in the blue and green of its rolling drumlin countryside. Looking from a bird's eye view, Monaghan will be seen as a land of green pastures, scrub, woodlands and heath, intertwined with endless blue lakes, rivers and streams. This region of Ireland is rightly famous for its wetlands, and their outstanding diversity and quality are on full show in this extended love-letter to the Monaghan landscape. This is the first Flora of County Monaghan, imbued with a wide variety of introductory chapters on the geology, vegetation history, climate, land-use history, botanical recording history habitats and best botanical sites of the county. These introductions are followed by over 1,200 plant species accounts, in which are descriptions and photographs of the many wild plants that make or have made Monaghan their home. This Flora is the result of almost ten years of recording and research work by botanist and ecologist Alexis FitzGerald and an invaluable addition to the literature of the county.