Flora

: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants.

[5][6] The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century.

Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century.

Floras may require specialist botanical knowledge to use with any effectiveness.

[10] However, despite its title it covered not only plants but also some animals of the region, that is China and India.

Simplified schematic of an island's flora – all its plant species, highlighted in boxes
The botanical continents of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions , used for classifying floras geographically
Floristic regions in Europe according to Wolfgang Frey and Rainer Lösch