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The WGSRPD botanical continent of Europe. This category contains articles related to the native flora of Europe. For the purposes of this category, "Europe" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It includes the following regions:
The Flora Europaea is a 5-volume encyclopedia of plants, published between 1964 and 1993 by Cambridge University Press.The aim was to describe all the national Floras of Europe in a single, authoritative publication to help readers identify any wild or widely cultivated plant in Europe to the subspecies level.
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 Trees of Europe. For the purposes of this category, "Europe" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It excludes Eastern Aegean Islands and Cyprus, which although geopolitically part of Europe are considered floristically part of ...
Gustav Hegi (13 November 1876 in Rickenbach, Canton of Zürich - 23 April 1932 in Goldbach, Canton of Zürich) was a Swiss botanist.His name is particularly associated with editing the multi-volume work Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa (Illustrated Flora of Central Europe), which is one of the most comprehensive floras in the World.
Flora of France (6 C, 270 P) Flora of French Polynesia (2 C, 9 P) G. Flora of Gabon (3 C, 166 P) Flora of the Gambia (17 P) Flora of Georgia (country) (2 C, 63 P)
For the purposes of this category, "Central Europe" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it Middle Europe, namely as a region within the botanical continent of Europe that includes the following areas, typically defined by the political boundaries of its constituents:
Ostrya carpinifolia, the European hop-hornbeam, is a tree in the family Betulaceae. It is the only species of the genus Ostrya that is native to Europe. The specific epithet carpinifolia means "hornbeam-leaved", from carpinus , the Latin word for " hornbeam ".