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The following categorization scheme is the result of a project to have our flora geographic categories follow the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions:

Brummitt, R. K. (2001). World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions: Edition 2 (PDF). Biodiversity Information Standards—TDWG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-25. Retrieved 2016-04-06.

Using the categorization hierarchy[edit]

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Template#Categories for advice: "Try to limit the number of categories with common sense and judicious use of regional categories: a species found across Europe except for two or three countries is still accurately put simply in Category:Flora of Europe."

If a species has a wide distribution that approximately matches the boundary of the largest scale geographic categories (e.g. continent or larger countries), then place it only in those top level geography categories and exclude it from child categories of those.
If a species has a more limited distribution but is still best described by regional boundaries (e.g. "Flora of Northern Europe" or "Flora of the Southeastern United States"), then place it only in those regional geography categories and exclude it from child categories of those. However, if the distribution extends just beyond the regional category's demarcation, a few additional categories may be required (e.g. some species occur in the Southeastern United States but also occur in Texas, so it would be categorized in both the regional Southeastern United States category and the Flora of Texas category).
If a species' distribution doesn't sufficiently match a regional category's boundary either because it is in too few of its subdivisions (states or small countries) or it straddles the boundary between two regional categories (e.g. a species present in a few countries in southern Northern Europe and northern Southwestern Europe and cannot accurately be described as being a member of either without breaking it down into just the countries it is found in), then choose the categories that are among the finest scale (states, provinces, and smaller countries. Species endemic to a state, province, or smaller country (those not subdivided) should only be categorized in these but the finest scale of categories is not restricted to endemic species.

What taxa do I include in these categories?

Each category should describe its geographical circumscription (boundaries) and also note that it is limited to flora that are native (not naturalized, introduced, or invasive) in that region. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included (species, subspecies, varieties). Higher taxa are included only if endemic (for example, a genus endemic to Western Australia could have the genus article itself included in that category). In the case of monotypic taxa, redirects should be categorized in exactly the same way.

Important differences from the usual geographical definitions

Category:Flora of Eastern Asia: Eastern Asia is a much smaller area than the usual "East Asia"
Category:Flora of Northern America: Northern America excludes the Caribbean and Central America
Category:Flora of Southern America: Southern America includes the Caribbean and Central America

To link to explanations of the WGSRPD definitions, the following can be used:

[[Eastern Asia (WGSRPD)|Eastern Asia]] – Eastern Asia
[[Northern America (WGSRPD)|Northern America]] – Northern America
[[Southern America (WGSRPD)|Southern America]] – Southern America

Category:Flora of Europe[edit]

Category:Flora of Northern Europe

Category:Flora of Denmark
Category:Flora of Finland
Category:Flora of the Faroe Islands
Category:Flora of Great Britain (doesn't break down to Wales, Scotland, England)
Category:Flora of Iceland
Category:Flora of Ireland
Category:Flora of Norway
Category:Flora of Svalbard
Category:Flora of Sweden

Category:Flora of Middle Europe

Called Middle Europe rather than Central Europe in WGSRPD.

Category:Flora of Southwestern Europe

Category:Flora of Southeastern Europe

Note that the WGSRPD does not include the eastern Aegean islands in Europe.

Category:Flora of Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe (with European Russia)

Eastern Europe with Russian federal divisions shown

(green) Eastern Europe: Belarus, Estonia, Kaliningrad, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Crimea, Moldova (not shown)

(orange) Northwest European Russia

(red) Central European Russia

(yellow) South European Russia

(dark blue) North European Russia

(violet) East European Russia

Category:Flora of Belarus
Category:Flora of the Baltic states
- Category:Flora of Estonia
- Category:Flora of Kaliningrad
- Category:Flora of Latvia
- Category:Flora of Lithuania
Category:Flora of the Crimean Peninsula
Category:Flora of Central European Russia: including Belgorod Oblast, Bryansk Oblast, Chuvashia, Ivanovo Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Kostroma Oblast, Kursk Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Mordovia, Moscow Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Oryol Oblast, Penza Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Smolensk Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Tula Oblast, Tver Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Voronezh Oblast, and Yaroslavl Oblast
Category:Flora of East European Russia: including Bashkortostan, Kirov Oblast, Mari El, Orenburg Oblast, Perm Krai, Samara Oblast, Tatarstan, and Udmurtia
Category:Flora of North European Russia: including Arkhangelsk Oblast (excluding Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land), Republic of Karelia, Komi Republic, Murmansk Oblast, and Vologda Oblast
Category:Flora of South European Russia: including Astrakhan Oblast, Kalmykia, Rostov Oblast, Saratov Oblast, and Volgograd Oblast
Category:Flora of Northwest European Russia: including Leningrad Oblast, Novgorod Oblast, Pskov Oblast, and Saint Petersburg
Category:Flora of Ukraine
- Category:Flora of Moldova

Category:Flora of Africa[edit]

Category:Flora of North Africa

Called Northern Africa in the WGSRPD.

Category:Flora of Algeria
Category:Flora of Egypt
Category:Flora of Libya
Category:Flora of Morocco
- Category:Flora of Spanish North African Territories
Category:Flora of Tunisia
Category:Flora of Western Sahara

Category:Flora of Macaronesia

Category:Flora of West Tropical Africa

Category:Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa

Category:Flora of Burundi
Category:Flora of Cabinda Province (exclave of Angola bounded by the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Category:Flora of Cameroon
Category:Flora of the Central African Republic
Category:Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)
Category:Flora of the Republic of the Congo
Category:Flora of Equatorial Guinea
Category:Flora of Gabon
Category:Flora of the Gulf of Guinea islands
- Category:Flora of Annobón
- Category:Flora of Bioko
- Category:Flora of Príncipe
- Category:Flora of São Tomé
Category:Flora of Rwanda

Category:Flora of Northeast Tropical Africa

Category:Flora of East Tropical Africa

Category:Flora of South Tropical Africa

Category:Flora of Southern Africa

Category:Flora of Botswana (BOT)
Category:Flora of the Caprivi Strip (CPV, politically part of Namibia)
Category:Flora of Lesotho (LES)
Category:Flora of Namibia, excluding the Caprivi Strip (NAM)
not in WGSRPD: Category:Flora of South Africa – the WGSRPD does not recognize South Africa as a whole, but splits it into four areas:
- Category:Flora of the Cape Provinces (CPP): Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Western Cape
- Category:Flora of KwaZulu-Natal (NAT)
- Category:Flora of the Free State (OFS)
- Category:Flora of the Northern Provinces (TVL): Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Northern Province (Limpopo) and North-West Province
Category:Flora of Swaziland (SWZ)

Category:Flora of the middle Atlantic Ocean

Category:Flora of Ascension Island
Category:Flora of Saint Helena (excluding Tristan da Cunha and associated islands)

Category:Flora of the Western Indian Ocean

Category:Flora of temperate Asia[edit]

Called Asia-Temperate in the WGSRPD.

Category:Flora of Siberia

Category:Flora of Altai (region) (both the krai and republic)
Category:Flora of Buryatia
Category:Flora of Chita Oblast
Category:Flora of Irkutsk Oblast
Category:Flora of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Category:Flora of Tuva
Category:Flora of West Siberia (the West Siberian Plain, including Omsk Oblast, Novosibirsk Oblast, Tomsk Oblast, Kemerovo Oblast, Khakassia, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Tyumen Oblast, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land)
Category:Flora of Sakha Republic (Yakutskiya in the WGSRPD)

Category:Flora of the Russian Far East

Category:Flora of Central Asia

Called Middle Asia by the WGSRPD.

Category:Flora of the Caucasus

Category:Flora of the North Caucasus
- Category:Flora of Chechnya
- Category:Flora of Dagestan
- Category:Flora of Ingushetia
- Category:Flora of Kabardino-Balkaria
- Category:Flora of Karachay-Cherkessia
- Category:Flora of Krasnodar Krai (including the Republic of Adgyea, an enclave)
- Category:Flora of North Ossetia-Alania
- Category:Flora of Stavropol Krai
Category:Flora of the Transcaucasus (South Caucasus)
- Category:Flora of Abkhazia
- Category:Flora of Adjara
- Category:Flora of Armenia
- Category:Flora of Azerbaijan
- Category:Flora of Georgia (country)
- Category:Flora of Nagorno-Karabakh
- Category:Flora of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Nakhichevan in the WGSRPD)

Category:Flora of Western Asia

(N.B. No subcategories, just Mongolia.)

Category:Flora of Eastern Asia

Note that the WGSRPD Eastern Asia is very different from the usual meaning of "East Asia", being a much smaller region.

Category:Flora of the Bonin Islands
Category:Flora of Japan
- Category:Flora of Hokkaido
- Category:Flora of Honshu
- Category:Flora of Kyushu
- Category:Flora of Shikoku
Category:Flora of Korea
- Category:Flora of North Korea
- Category:Flora of South Korea
Category:Flora of the Ryukyu Islands
Category:Flora of Taiwan
Category:Flora of the Volcano Islands

Category:Flora of tropical Asia[edit]

Called Asia-Tropical in the WGSRPD.

Category:Flora of the Indian subcontinent

Category:Flora of Assam (region)
- Category:Flora of Assam
- Category:Flora of Manipur
- Category:Flora of Meghalaya
- Category:Flora of Mizoram
- Category:Flora of Nagaland
- Category:Flora of Tripura
Category:Flora of Bangladesh
Category:Flora of East Himalaya
- Category:Flora of Arunachal Pradesh
- Category:Flora of Bhutan
- Category:Flora of Darjeeling (district)
- Category:Flora of Sikkim
Category:Flora of India (region) – note that this is not the same as the non-WGSRPD Category:Flora of India as it excludes the Himalaya, etc.
- Category:Flora of Andhra Pradesh
- Category:Flora of Bihar
- Category:Flora of Chandigarh
- Category:Flora of Chhattisgarh
- Category:Flora of Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Category:Flora of Delhi
- Category:Flora of Diu district
- Category:Flora of Daman district, India
- Category:Flora of Goa
- Category:Flora of Gujarat
- Category:Flora of Haryana
- Category:Flora of Jharkhand
- Category:Flora of Kerala
- Category:Flora of Karaikal (district)
- Category:Flora of Karnataka
- Category:Flora of Mahé district
- Category:Flora of Madhya Pradesh
- Category:Flora of Maharashtra
- Category:Flora of Odisha
- Category:Flora of Puducherry (district)
- Category:Flora of Punjab, India
- Category:Flora of Rajasthan
- Category:Flora of Tamil Nadu
- Category:Flora of Uttar Pradesh
- Category:Flora of West Bengal
- Category:Flora of Yanam (district)
Category:Flora of the Laccadive Islands (Lakshadweep)
Category:Flora of the Maldives (Should there be a "the" in this name?)
Category:Flora of Nepal
Category:Flora of Pakistan
Category:Flora of Sri Lanka
Category:Flora of West Himalaya
- Category:Flora of Himachal Pradesh
- Category:Flora of Jammu and Kashmir
- Category:Flora of Uttarakhand (formerly Uttaranchal)

Category:Flora of Indo-China

Category:Flora of the Andaman Islands
- Category:Flora of the Coco Islands
Category:Flora of Cambodia
Category:Flora of Laos
Category:Flora of Myanmar
Category:Flora of the Nicobar Islands
Category:Flora of the South China Sea
- Category:Flora of the Paracel Islands
- Category:Flora of the Spratly Islands
Category:Flora of Thailand
Category:Flora of Vietnam

Category:Flora of Malesia

Category:Flora of Papuasia

Category:Flora of the Bismarck Archipelago
Category:Flora of New Guinea
- Category:Flora of Western New Guinea – formerly Irian Jaya, as in the WGSRPD
- Category:Flora of Papua New Guinea
Category:Flora of the Solomon Islands (archipelago) (WGSRPD: Solomon Is.)
- Category:Flora of the North Solomons
- Category:Flora of the South Solomons

Category:Flora of the Antipodean Islands
Category:Flora of the Chatham Islands
Category:Flora of the Kermadec Islands
Category:Flora of the North Island
Category:Flora of the South Island

Category:Flora of the Pacific[edit]

Category:Flora of the Southwestern Pacific

Category:Flora of Fiji
Category:Flora of the Gilbert Islands
Category:Flora of the Howland and Baker islands (Howland-Baker Is. in the WGSRPD)
Category:Flora of Nauru
Category:Flora of Niue
Category:Flora of New Caledonia
Category:Flora of the Phoenix Islands
Category:Flora of Samoa
- Category:Flora of American Samoa
Category:Flora of the Santa Cruz Islands
Category:Flora of Tokelau and Manihiki (Tokelau-Manihiki in the WGSRPD)
- Category:Flora of the Manihiki Islands
- Category:Flora of Swains Island
- Category:Flora of Tokelau
Category:Flora of Tonga
Category:Flora of Tuvalu
Category:Flora of Vanuatu
Category:Flora of Wallis and Futuna (Wallis-Futuna Is. in the WGSRPD)

Category:Flora of the south-central Pacific

Category:Flora of the Cook Islands
Category:Flora of Easter Island
Category:Flora of the Line Islands
- Category:Flora of the Kiribati Line Islands
- Category:Flora of the United States Line Islands
Category:Flora of the Marquesas Islands
Category:Flora of the Pitcairn Islands
Category:Flora of the Society Islands
Category:Flora of the Tuamotus
Category:Flora of the Tubuai Islands

Category:Flora of the Northwestern Pacific

Category:Flora of the Caroline Islands
- Category:Flora of the Federated States of Micronesia
- Category:Flora of Palau
Category:Flora of Marcus Island
Category:Flora of the Mariana Islands (Marianas in the WGSRPD)
- Category:Flora of Guam
- Category:Flora of the Northern Mariana Islands (Northern Marianas in the WGSRPD)
Category:Flora of the Marshall Islands
Category:Flora of Wake Island

Flora of the north-central Pacific

(The regional category is not needed as there is only one area within it.)

Category:Flora of Hawaii
- Category:Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
- Category:Flora of Johnston Island
- Category:Flora of the Midway Islands

Category:Flora of Central Mexico
- Category:Flora of Mexico City
- Category:Flora of the State of Mexico
- Category:Flora of Morelos
- Category:Flora of Puebla
- Category:Flora of Tlaxcala
Category:Flora of the Mexican Pacific Islands
- Category:Flora of Guadalupe Island
- Category:Flora of Rocas Alijos
- Category:Flora of the Revillagigedo Islands
Category:Flora of Northeastern Mexico
Category:Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Category:Flora of Southeastern Mexico
Category:Flora of Southwestern Mexico
Category:Flora of Veracruz

Category:Flora of Southern America[edit]

Note that this includes Central America and the Caribbean.

Category:Flora of Central America

Category:Flora of Belize
Category:Flora of the Central American Pacific Islands
- Category:Flora of Clipperton Island
- Category:Flora of Cocos Island
- Category:Flora of Malpelo Island
Category:Flora of Costa Rica
Category:Flora of El Salvador
Category:Flora of Guatemala
Category:Flora of Honduras
Category:Flora of Nicaragua
Category:Flora of Panama

Category:Flora of the Caribbean

Category:Flora of Aruba
Category:Flora of the Bahamas
Category:Flora of Bermuda
Category:Flora of the Cayman Islands
Category:Flora of Cuba
Category:Flora of the Dominican Republic
Category:Flora of Haiti
- Category:Flora of Navassa Island
Category:Flora of Jamaica
Category:Flora of the Leeward Islands
- Category:Flora of Anguilla
- Category:Flora of Antigua and Barbuda
- Category:Flora of Aves Island
- Category:Flora of the British Virgin Islands
- Category:Flora of Guadeloupe
- Category:Flora of Montserrat
- Category:Flora of the Netherlands Leeward Islands
- Category:Flora of Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Category:Flora of Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy Islands
- Category:Flora of the United States Virgin Islands
Category:Flora of the Netherlands Antilles
- Category:Flora of Bonaire
- Category:Flora of Curaçao
Category:Flora of Puerto Rico
Category:Flora of the Southwest Caribbean
- Category:Flora of the Colombian Caribbean Islands
- Category:Flora of the Honduran Caribbean Islands
- Category:Flora of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Islands
Category:Flora of Trinidad and Tobago
Category:Flora of the Turks and Caicos Islands
Category:Flora of the Venezuelan Antilles
Category:Flora of the Windward Islands
- Category:Flora of Barbados
- Category:Flora of Dominica
- Category:Flora of Grenada
- Category:Flora of Martinique
- Category:Flora of Saint Lucia
- Category:Flora of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – just called "St. Vincent" in the WGSRPD, but includes the Grenadines

Category:Flora of North Brazil
- Category:Flora of Acre (state)
- Category:Flora of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
- Category:Flora of Amapá
- Category:Flora of Pará
- Category:Flora of Roraima
- Category:Flora of Rondônia
- Category:Flora of Tocantins
Category:Flora of Northeast Brazil
- Category:Flora of Alagoas
- Category:Flora of Bahia
- Category:Flora of Ceará
- Category:Flora of Fernando de Noronha
- Category:Flora of Maranhão
- Category:Flora of Paraíba
- Category:Flora of Pernambuco
- Category:Flora of Piauí
- Category:Flora of Rio Grande do Norte
- Category:Flora of Sergipe
Category:Flora of South Brazil
Category:Flora of Southeast Brazil
- Category:Flora of Espírito Santo
- Category:Flora of Minas Gerais
- Category:Flora of Rio de Janeiro (state)
- Category:Flora of São Paulo (state)
- Category:Flora of Trindade and Martin Vaz
Category:Flora of West-Central Brazil
- Category:Flora of the Federal District (Brazil)
- Category:Flora of Goiás
- Category:Flora of Mato Grosso do Sul
- Category:Flora of Mato Grosso

Category:Flora of southern South America

Category:Flora of Northeast Argentina
- Category:Flora of Buenos Aires Province
- Category:Flora of Córdoba Province, Argentina
- Category:Flora of Chaco Province
- Category:Flora of Corrientes Province
- Category:Flora of the Federal District, Argentina
- Category:Flora of Entre Ríos Province
- Category:Flora of Formosa Province
- Category:Flora of La Pampa Province
- Category:Flora of Misiones Province
- Category:Flora of Santa Fe Province
Category:Flora of Northwest Argentina
- Category:Flora of Catamarca Province
- Category:Flora of Jujuy Province
- Category:Flora of La Rioja Province, Argentina
- Category:Flora of Mendoza Province
- Category:Flora of Salta Province
- Category:Flora of Santiago del Estero Province
- Category:Flora of San Juan Province, Argentina
- Category:Flora of San Luis Province
- Category:Flora of Tucumán Province
Category:Flora of South Argentina
- Category:Flora of Chubut Province
- Category:Flora of Neuquén Province
- Category:Flora of Río Negro Province
- Category:Flora of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
- Category:Flora of Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina (Category:Flora of Tierra del Fuego is wider and not in the WGSRPD)
Category:Flora of northern Chile (WGSRPD: Chile North)
- Category:Flora of Antofagasta Region (WGSRPD: Antofagasta)
- Category:Flora of Atacama Region (WGSRPD: Atacama)
- Category:Flora of Tarapacá Region (WGSRPD: Tarapaca)
Category:Flora of central Chile
- Category:Flora of Bío Bío Region (WGSRPD: Biobio)
- Category:Flora of Coquimbo Region (WGSRPD: Coquimbo)
- Category:Flora of Araucanía Region (WGSRPD: La Araucania)
- Category:Flora of Maule Region (WGSRPD: Maule)
- Category:Flora of O'Higgins Region (WGSRPD: O'Higgins)
- Category:Flora of Santiago Metropolitan Region (WGSRPD: Santiago)
- Category:Flora of Valparaíso Region (WGSRPD: Valparaiso)
Category:Flora of southern Chile (WGSRPD: Chile South)
- Category:Flora of Aysén Region (WGSRPD: Aisen)
- Category:Flora of Los Lagos Region (WGSRPD: Los Lagos)
- Category:Flora of Magallanes Region (WGSRPD: Magellanes)
Category:Flora of the Desventuradas Islands (WGSRPD: Desventurados Is.)
Category:Flora of the Juan Fernández Islands
Category:Flora of Paraguay
Category:Flora of Uruguay