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The Flora of North America North of Mexico (usually referred to as FNA) is a multivolume work describing the native plants and naturalized plants of North America, including the United States, Canada, St. Pierre and Miquelon, and Greenland.
An electronic Flora is an online resource which provides descriptions of the associated plants, often also providing identification keys, or partial identification keys, to the plants described. Some Floras point to the literature associated with the plants of the region (flora Malesiana), others seek to show the plants of a region using images ...
The native flora of the United States has provided the world with a large number of horticultural and agricultural plants, mostly ornamentals, such as flowering dogwood, redbud, mountain laurel, bald cypress, southern magnolia, and black locust, all now cultivated in temperate regions worldwide, but also various food plants such as blueberries ...
The WGSRPD defines Northern America differently from the usual geographical definition of North America. Central America and the Caribbean are treated as part of the botanical continent of Southern America; see Flora of Central America and Flora of the Caribbean. The flora of Hawaii is included in Flora of the Pacific.
Critically endangered flora of North America (1 C, 48 P) E. Endangered flora of North America (1 C, 65 P) Extinct flora of North America (120 P) L.
The province is bordered by, and sometimes defined as partly coincident with, the Rocky Mountain Floristic Region in the north. This boundary is poorly defined as some leading geobotanists, including Robert F. Thorne (Flora of North America) and Armen Takhtajan, include Oregon and Northern California within the Rocky Mountain Province. [3]
The Flora of North America Project has chosen a line drawing of Floerkea to serve as its logo because of this taxon's ubiquitous (but obscure) occurrence in many areas of North America, and the diverse aspects of the family including economic and horticultural value, endangered species status and fruitful subject of scientific research.
In western North America, Tiarella trifoliata prefers shaded, moist, sometimes dense woods up to 1,900 m (6,234 ft). [6] It ranges from northern California through western Canada northward to Alaska, and eastward to Montana. [22] [26] [27] Within this region, the varieties of T. trifoliata have overlapping ranges: