FloraBase - the Western Australian Flora

FloraBase is the authoritative source for information about the Western Australian flora. Originally developed by the Western Australian Herbarium in 1995 and launched on the Internet in 1998, FloraBase has now been refined and extended to incorporate even more quality botanical information about our State’s unique plants.

FloraBase integrates data from a number of fundamental datasets including the Census of Western Australian Plants, the Western Australian Herbarium specimen database of 700,000 vouchered plant collections, and descriptive data and interactive keys for the families, genera and species of vascular plant in Western Australia. Significantly, all these datasets are regularly maintained and updated, providing the FloraBase user with immediate information about the many discoveries and advances regarding Western Australia’s world-renowned flora.

With the release of the latest version of FloraBase in September 2007, this information is even more readily available. Only the specimen data, which includes localities for many rare and threatened species that must be protected, requires registration for access. All other content, including the names, plant images, distribution maps and interactive keys are freely available.

Open the FloraBase web application. Note that this may open a new browser window.