Flora Lapponica is an account of the plants of Lapland

Lapland (region)

Lapland is a region in northern Fennoscandia, largely within the Arctic Circle. It streches across Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula . On the North it is bounded by the Barents Sea, on the West by the Norwegian Sea and on the East by the White Sea...

 written by botanist, zoologist and naturalist

Naturalist

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 Carl Linnaeus (1707-1788) following his expedition to Lapland

Expedition to Lapland

The Expedition to Lapland, the northernmost region in Sweden, by Carl Linnaeus in 1732 was an important part of his scientific career.Linnaeus departed from Uppsala and travelled clockwise around the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia over the course of six months, making major inland incursions from...

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Over the period from 12 May 1732 to 10 Sept 1732, and with a grant from the Swedish Royal Academy, Linnaeus was able to combine his interest in medicine with that of natural history to travel for five months in Lapland collecting animals, plants, and minerals.

In Flora Lapponica Linnaeus’s ideas about nomenclature

Nomenclature

Nomenclature is a term that applies to either a list of names or terms, or to the system of principles, procedures and terms related to naming - which is the assigning of a word or phrase to a particular object or property...

 and classification

Classification

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 were first used in a practical way, making this the first proto-modern flora

Flora

Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:...

. The account covered 534 species, used the Linnaean classification system and included, for the described species, geographical distribution and taxonomic notes. It was Augustin Pyramus de Candolle who attributed Linnaeus with Flora Lapponica as the first example in the botanical genre of Flora writing. Botanical historian E.L. Greene

Edward Lee Greene

Edward Lee Greene, Ph.D., was an American botanist known for his numerous publications including the two-part Landmarks of Botanical History and the naming or redescribing of over 4,400 species of plants in the American West.- Early Life :Edward Lee Greene was born on August 20, 1843 in...

 described Flora Lapponica as “the most classic and delightful of Linnaeus’s writings”.

A Lapland plant, Linnaea borealis, was named by the eminent botanist Jan Frederik Gronovius

Jan Frederik Gronovius

Jan Frederik Gronovius was a Dutch botanist notable as a patron of Linnaeus....

 in commemoration of Linnaeus's achievements. In the Critica Botanica

Critica Botanica

Critica Botanica was written by Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus . The book was published in Germany when Linnaeus was twenty-nine with a discursus by the botanist Johannes Browallius , bishop of Åbo...

Linnaeus uses this name to advocate the use of commemorative personal names as botanical names: