What is Flora?
{{otheruses}} 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 [[flower]]s 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 [http://webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=flora] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430072626/http://webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=flora |date=2006-04-30 }} [http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/zy198.htm#F] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070715060359/http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/zy198.htm#F |date=2007-07-15 }}. 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 Virgi