noun
flora
FLOR-uh/ˈflɔːrə/
The plants of a particular region, period, or environment.
The woodland flora includes oak, hazel, ferns, violets, and moss.
Etymology
Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, supplied a name for descriptive plant catalogues. That use connects her name with the collective plant life of a region or period.
In context
the Flora can be nearly as Eerie as the fauna when British colonists first encountered the plant in 1818 they could hardly believe what they were seeing and smelling
More examples
- She studied the island's flora.
- Different regions have distinct floras.
- The survey recorded native flora.
Forms
flora · floras · florae
Similar words
- vegetation
- Plant growth considered collectively rather than species composition.
- fauna
- The animals of a region rather than its plants.