flora

Burnt-sienna vines twist through simmering ocher air, while flora sprout through these roiling masses in hues of chromium oxide and cadmium green.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Genetic material recovered from internal tissues included bacteria that were part of Ötzi's original gut flora.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Its landscapes include grasslands, lagoons, heathland and vegetated shingle, which supports a range of creatures, flora and fauna - not just birds.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

For those unfamiliar with these funky flora, be warned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

A third advantage of the Fertile Crescent flora is that it includes a high percentage of hermaphroditic “selfers”—that is, plants that usually pollinate themselves but that are occasionally cross-pollinated.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Of the 1,000 or so species of floras in the park, lodgepole pine and the duff from its fallen needles and branches provided most of the fuel for the fires.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Joseph Hooker also doubts the generally greater richness of tropical over temperate floras which I have taken as almost an axiom.

From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace

In this way the similarity between the Alpine and Scandinavian faunas and floras is assumed to have been brought about.

From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff

The flora of the southwestern interior basin of North America in early late to late Pliocene was intermediate between the previous grassland floras of the middle Pliocene and the savannah flora of upper Pliocene.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. Packard

Not uncommonly, the exotic floras differ from ours, not merely in respect of the species, but also of the genera of Gasteromycetes.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke