What is the difference between flora and vegetation?

To answer
this question, it's good to look at the dictionary definitions of flora and vegetation.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, flora are the types of individual plants that you
can list of a particular region. In comparison, they say that vegetation is a more general term
used to describe the type of growth area.

The four main types of vegetation
are forest vegetation, grassland vegetation, and desert vegetation. However, one can narrow it
down further into areas into sub-categories such marshland vegetation and heathland vegetation.
For example, though England's New Forest would be mostly seen as forest vegetation, it also
contains some heathland vegetation as well.

Within the heathland vegetation,
its flora includes plants such as orchids heather, louseworts, tormentils and gorse.

Flora shouldn't be confused with fauna, which mean a list of the types of animals in a
region.

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