Flora (plants)

In botany, flora (plural: floras or floræ) is a collective term for vegetation or plant life, especially the plants of a particular region at a certain point in time. Abstractly, the term refers to plants considered as a particular group; concretely, a flora is a descriptive catalogue or treatise—usually illustrated—of the plants of a geographical area and/or geological period.

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Botany - Plural - Vegetation - Plant - Life - Time - Catalog - Illustrated - Geographical - Geological period

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The term flora comes from the name of Flora, the goddess of flowers in Roman mythology.

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Flora - Goddess - Flower - Roman mythology

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