Flora

Flora is all the plant life proposed in a particular region or time, loosely the naturally occurring indigenous native plants. Sometimes bacteria in addition to fungi are also subjected to as flora, as in the terms gut flora or skin flora.

Etymology

The word "flora" comes from the Latin have of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, as well as fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was number one used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a cause cataloguing such(a) vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century.

The distinction between vegetation the general appearance of a community and flora the taxonomic composition of a community was number one made by Jules Thurmann 1849. Prior to this, the two terms were used indiscriminately.