World Flora Online is the international initiative to achieve Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and provides a global overview of the diversity of plant species. It is the essential tool for conservation planners, policymakers and practitioners at all levels.
This map graph shows the current approximate coverage of species, derived from data supplied by World Checklist of Vascular Plants and the associated Floras, for level two regions of World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Hover over regions for further information.
Descriptions of
38%
of 377,701 accepted
species included
Why the WFO?
In this short video, Peter Wyse Jackson gives the background and rational of the WFO.
Recent WFO Stories
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WFO @ XX IBC
Between 21 and 27th July thousands of botanists from around the world will descend on Madrid for the XX International Botanical Congress.
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WFO's June 2024 release
WFO's June 2024 release goes live.
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Twenty years of big plant genera - newly published article.
WFO December 2023 data analysed in Twenty years of big plant genera published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.