Flora (plants)
In botany, flora (plural: floras or floræ) has two meanings. The first refers to all the plant species known to occur in a defined area (or, in common use, to the vegetation in general). Plant community is a close synonym often used by scientists or resource managers. Although it can be applied to any area containing plants, it often refers to relatively unmanaged, or natural, vegetated areas. The second refers to a written (usually published) work which systematically describes all such species, usually with a diagnostic key which helps one to identify each species in the field. The term comes from Flora, the goddess of flowers in Roman mythology.
Classic floræ
Europe
Indonesia
Blume, Karl Ludwig, and Joanne Baptista Fischer. Flora Javæ. 1828.
Modern floræ
Caribbean
- Britton, N. L., and Percy Wilson. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands — Volume V, Part 1: Botany of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands: Pandanales to Thymeleales. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1924.
North America
- Kearney, Thomas H. Arizona Flora. University of California Press, 1940.
- Hulteen, Eric. Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants. Stanford University Press, 1968.
- Radford, Albert E. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
- Hitchcock, C. Leo, and Arthur Cronquist. Flora of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, 1973.
- Chadde, Steve W., and Steve Chadde. A Great Lakes Wetland Flora. 2nd ed. Pocketflora Press, 2002. ISBN 0-9651-3855-0
British Isles
- Anthony Stace, Clive, and Hilli Thompson (illustrator). A New Flora of the British Isles. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-5215-8935-5.
- Beesley, S. and J. Wilde. Urban Flora of Belfast. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, 1997.
- Killick, John, Roy Perry and Stan Woodell. Flora of Oxfordshire. Pisces Publications, 1998. ISBN 1-874357-07-2.
- Bowen, Humphry. The Flora of Dorset. Pisces Publications, 2000. ISBN 1-874357-16-1.
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