Flora Europaea
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. It also provides information on geographical distribution, habitat preference, and chromosome number, where known.
The Flora was released in CD form in 2001, and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh have made an index to the plant names available online.
History
The idea of a pan-European Flora was first mooted at the 8th International Congress of Botany in Paris in 1954. In 1957, Britain's Science and Engineering Research Council provided grants to fund a secretariat of three people, and Volume 1 was published in 1964. More volumes were issued in the following years, culminating in 1980 with the monocots of Volume 5. The royalties were put into a trust fund administered by the Linnean Society, which allowed funding for Dr John Akeroyd to continue work on the project. A revised Volume 1 was launched at the Linnean Society on 11 March 1993.Volumes
Volume 1 : Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae
Volume 2: Rosaceae to Umbelliferae
Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae
Volume 4: Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae)
Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae
Volume 1 Revised: Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae
5 Volume Set and CD-ROM Pack
Editors
The editors named on every edition are :For the Revised Edition of Volume 1 only :
For the CD set only :
Regional advisers
A panel of regional advisers was formed, in order to ensure full coverage of the whole of Europe. Several of the advisers were also authors in their respective taxonomic specialities. For each country the representatives were:Geographical Codes
The geographical distribution is indicated by a series of two letter codes.| Two Letter Code | Geographical Region |
| Al | Albania |
| Au | Austria with Liechtenstein |
| Az | Açores ' |
| Be | Belgium |
| Bl | Islas Baleares ' |
| Br | Great Britain, including Orkney, Zetland and Isle of Man; excluding Channel Islands and Northern Ireland |
| Bu | Bulgaria |
| Co | Corse ' |
| Cr | Kriti ' with Karpathos, Kasos and Gavdhos |
| Cz | Czechoslovakia ' |
| Da | Denmark |
| Fa | Færöer ' |
| Fe | Finland, including Ahvenanmaa ' |
| Ga | France, with the Channel Islands and Monaco; excluding Corse ' |
| Ge | Germany |
| Gr | Greece, excluding those islands included under Kriti ' and those outside Europe as defined for Flora Europaea |
| Hb | Ireland ; both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland |
| He | Switzerland |
| Ho | Netherlands |
| Hs | Spain with Gibraltar and Andorra; excluding Islas Baleares ' |
| Hu | Hungary |
| Is | Iceland |
| It | Italy, including the Arcipelago Toscano; excluding Sardegna and Sicilia |
| Ju | Jugoslavia ' |
| Lu | Portugal |
| No | Norway |
| Po | Poland |
| Rm | Romania |
| Rs | Territories of the former U.S.S.R. |
| Rs | Northern Division: Arctic Europe, Karelo-Lapland, Dvina-Pecora |
| Rs | Baltic Division: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kaliningradskaja Oblast' |
| Rs | Central Division: Ladoga-Ilmen, Upper Volga, Volga-Kama, Upper Dnepr, Volga-Don, Ural |
| Rs | South-western Division: Moldavia, Middle Dnepr, Black Sea, Upper Dnestr |
| Rs | Krym |
| Rs | South-eastern Division: Lower Don, Lower Volga Region, Transvolga |
| Sa | Sardegna ' |
| Sb | Svalbard, comprising Spitsbergen, Björnöya and Jan Mayen |
| Si | Sicilia, with Pantelleria, Isole Pelagie, Isole Lipari and Ustica; also the Malta archipelago |
| Su | Sweden, including Öland and Gotland |
| Tu | Turkey, including Gökçeada |