flora

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It is the best event the site has seen since 2016, with swathes of the desert transformed and covered in golden and violet flora.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

The gut microbiome, also called the gut flora, plays a vital role in human health.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

Humanity, which has gained the capability of time travel, lives among the clouds, collecting extinct flora from the past to populate lush, green gardens on elevated platforms while Earth undergoes a healing process below.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

The Palisades is nested against a mountain range filled with dried-out flora, making it an “extreme” fire risk, according to an official state threat assessment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Thus, the high percentage of hermaphroditic selfers in the Fertile Crescent flora aided early farmers, because it meant that a high percentage of the wild flora had a reproductive biology convenient for humans.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond