Flora

In botany, flora (plural: floras or florae) has two meanings.
The first meaning refers Flowers ,Flower Goddess and plant life in an area or time period (especially the naturally occurring or indigenous plant life). The corresponding term for animal life is fauna.
The second meaning refers to a book or other work which describes the plant species in an area or time period, with the aim of allowing identification.
The term flora comes from the Latin language. Flora was the goddess of flowers in Roman mythology.
Plants are grouped into floras based on region, period, special environment, or climate. Regions can be geographically distinct habitats like mountain vs. flatland. Floras can mean plant life of an historic era as in fossil flora.
Bacterial organisms are sometimes included in a flora . Other times, the terms bacterial flora and plant flora are used separately.
Floras (in the second sense)
Classic floras
Europe
Flora Londinensis, William Curtis. England 1777- 1798
Flora Graeca, John Sibthorp. (England) 1806 - 1840
Flora Danica, Simon Paulli. Denmark, 1847.
Flora Jenensis, Heinrich Bernhard Rupp Germany, 1718.
Flora Scorer, Paolo Di Canio. 1723.
Flora Suecica, Carolus Linnaeus. 1745.
India
Hortus indicus malabaricus, Hendrik van Rheede 1683-1703
Indonesia
Flora Javae, Carl Ludwig Blume and Joanne Baptista Fischer. 1828.
Modern floras
Americas
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.
Central & South America
Flora Brasiliensis
Flora de Chile
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica
Flora of Ecuador
Flora of Guatemala
Flora de Nicaragua
Flora of Peru
Flora of the Guianas
Flora of Panama
Flora del Paraguay
Flora of Suriname
Flora Mesoamericana (1994-ongoing) Introduction
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana
Flora Neotropica (1968-ongoing) Organising committee website .
North America
Flora of North America
Kearney, Thomas H. Arizona Flora. University of California Press, 1940.
Hickman, James C., editor. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press, 1993.
Hulten, 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.
P. D. Strausbaugh and Earl L. Core. Flora of West Virginia. 2nd ed. Seneca Books Inc., 1964.
Ann Fouler Rhoads and Timothy A. Block. The Plants of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon. Addison Brown. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada. In three volumes. Dover Publications, 1913, 1970.
Asia
China and Japan
Flora of China
Flora of China in eFloras
Flora of Japan
Southeast Asia
Flora of Thailand
Florae Siamensis Enumeratio
Flora Malesiana
Flora of the Malay Peninsula
Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Viet-Nam
Indian region and Sri Lanka
Flora of Bhutan
Flora of the Presidency of Madras by J.S. Gamble (1915-36)
Flora of Nepal
Bengal Plants by D. Prain (1903)
Flora of the upper Gangetic plains by J. F. Duthie (1903-29)
Botany of Bihar and Orissa by H.H. Haines (1921-25)
Flora of British India (1872-1897) by Sir J.D. Hooker
Middle East and western Asia
Flora of Turkey
Flora Iranica
Flora Palaestina:
M. Zohary (1966). Flora Palaestina part 1.
M. Zohary (1972). Flora Palaestina part 2.
N. Feinbrun (1978). Flora Palaestina part 3.
N. Feinbrun (1986). Flora Palaestina part 4.
A. Danin, (2004). Distribution Atlas of Plants in the Flora Palaestina Area (Flora Palaestina part 5).
Online updates: http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?lang=en&action=showfile&fileid=14005
Australasia
Flora of Australia series
Flora of New Zealand series:
Allan, H.H. 1961, reprinted 1982. Flora of New Zealand. Volume I: Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons. .
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970, reprinted 1976. Flora of New Zealand. Volume II: Indigenous Tracheophyta - Monocotyledons except Graminae. .
Healy, A.J.; Edgar, E. 1980. Flora of New Zealand Volume III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons. .
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.;Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988. Flora of New Zealand Volume IV: Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. .
Edgar, E.; Connor, H.E. 2000. Flora of New Zealand Volume V: Grasses. .
Volumes I-V: First electronic edition, Landcare Research, June 2004. Transcribed by A.D. Wilton and I.M.L. Andres.
Galloway, D.J. 1985. Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. .
Croasdale, H.; Flint, E.A. 1986. Flora of New Zealand: Desmids. Volume I. .
Croasdale, H.; Flint, E.A. 1988. Flora of New Zealand: Desmids. Volume II. .
Croasdale, H.; Flint, E.A.;Racine, M.M. 1994. Flora of New Zealand: Desmids. Volume III. .
Sykes, W.R.; West, C.J.; Beever, J.E.; Fife, A.J. 2000. Kermadec Islands Flora - Special Edition. .
Pacific Islands
Flora Vitiensis Nova, a New Flora of Fiji
Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, Warren L. Wagner and Derral R. Herbst (1991) + suppl.
Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie
Flore de la Polynesie Francaise (J. Florence, vol. 1 & 2, 1997 & 2004)
Europe
British Isles
Morton O. 1994. Marine Algae of Northern Ireland. Ulster Museum, Belfast.
Stace, Clive Anthony, and Hilli Thompson (illustrator). A New Flora of the British Isles. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 1997. .
Beesley S. and J. Wilde. Urban Flora of Belfast. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1997.
Killick, John, Roy Perry and Stan Woodell. Flora of Oxfordshire. Pisces Publications, 1998. .
Bowen, Humphry. The Flora of Dorset. Pisces Publications, 2000. .
Flora Celtica Plants and people in Celtic Europe
Flora Europaea at the site of The Royal Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh
Flora of Europe
Flora Iberica
Flora of Acores
Flora Danica
Flora of Romania
Africa and Madagascar
Flore du Gabon
Flore du Cameroun
Flora of Tropical Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora Capensis
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora of South Africa
Flore du Rwanda
Flore de Madagascar et des Comores
Related pages
Biome -- a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities.
Vegetation -- a general term for the plant life of a region.
Fauna
Other websites
eFloras -- a collection of on-line floras
Chilebosque -- checklist of Chilean native flora
Flora of NW Europe with descriptions and a quiz to test your knowledge
Flora of Israel Online
Flora of Australia Online
Flora of New Zealand Series Online
Botany
Reference works