Flora Lapponica (frontispiece)
''Flora Lapponica'' (Amsterdam, 1737) is an account of the plants of Sápmi, Lapland written by botanist, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1788) following his expedition to Lapland. Background Over the period from 12 May 1732 to 10 September 1732, and with a grant from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala for his journey,#Anderson, Anderson (1997), pp. 42–43.#Blunt2001, Blunt (2001), p. 38. Linnaeus was able to combine his interest in medicine with that of natural history to travel for five months in Lapland collecting animals, plants, and minerals. Classification used In ''Flora Lapponica'' Linnaeus's ideas about nomenclature and Biological classification, classification were first used in a practical way, making this the first proto-modern Flora (publication), Flora. The account covered 534 species, used the Linnaean classification system and included, for the described species, geographical distribution and taxonomic notes. It was Augustin Pyramus de Candolle ...
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