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Flora (other)
Flora is plant life collectively. Flora may also refer to: Microbiology * Flora (microbiology), collective bacteria and other microorganisms in a host * Flora or microbiota, the collective bacteria and other microorganisms in an animal host People and fictional characters * Flora (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Flora (surname), a list of people with the name Places Norway * Flora, Norway, a municipality in Sunnfjord * Flora, Trøndelag, a village in Selbu municipality in Trøndelag county United States * Flora Lake, California * Flora, Florida, a former community * Flora, Illinois, a city * Flora Township, Boone County, Illinois * Flora, Indiana, a town * Flora, Miami County, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Flora Township, Dickinson County, Kansas * Flora, Louisiana, an unincorporated community * Flora Township, Renville County, Minnesota * Flora, Mississippi, a town * Flora, Ohio, a ghost town * Flora, Oregon, an un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora
Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and 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 first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such 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 first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used indiscriminately.Thurmann, J. (1849). ''Essai de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
