Flora
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In botany, flora (plural: floras or florae) has two meanings: a flora (with a lower case 'f') refers to the plant life occurring in a particular region, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous plant life, while a Flora (with a capital 'F') refers to a book or other work describing a flora and including aids for the identification of the plants it contains such as botanical keys and line drawings that illustrate the characters that distinguish the different plants. Floristics is the study of floras, including the preparation of Floras.
The term flora comes from Latin language Flora, the goddess of flowers in Roman mythology. The corresponding term for animal life is fauna. Flora, fauna and other forms of life such as fungi are collectively referred to as biota. Some classic and modern floras are listed below.
See also
- Biome — a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities.
- Vegetation — a general term for the plant life of a region.
- Fauna
- Flora (mythology), a goddess in Roman mythology
- Flora (Titian), a painting by Titian
- Herbal
- Horticultural flora
- Pharmacopoeia
