Flora - Definition and Overview

The term flora has several meanings in English:

• Flora is a collective term for plant life; as distinct from Fauna (animals).
• Flora is also a book listing plants. - see Flora (plants)
• Flora was a goddess in Roman mythology - see Flora (goddess)
• Flora is a brand of margarine made by Unilever. A former marketing slogan was "Are you a Flora man?"
• Flora is also a girl's name. Some notable women with the name flora are:
  • Flora Brovina, a Yugoslavian pediatrician, feminist, poet, and human rights activist
  • Flora MacDonald, a Canadian politician
  • Flora Macdonald, a Jacobite who aided Prince Charles Edward.
  • Flora Robson, a British acress
  • Flora Sheldon, the grandmother of US President George H. W. Bush
  • Flora Tristan, a founder of modern feminism
  • Flora Twort, an English painter
• There are several places called Flora
  • Flora, Norway
  • Flora, Illinois, USA
  • Flora, Indiana, USA
  • Flora Township, Minnesota, USA
  • Flora, Mississippi, USA
• There is an asteroid called 8 Flora