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This map shows the number of native plant species, and demonstrates a bias towards the southern hemisphere, especially the continents of South America and Africa. In contrast, Canada and North America have relatively few species.

Territory size is proportional to the number of native plant species.

• Cause of Death Map Index
• View labelled territory map or population map for comparison
• Data files: Excel (small no map), Opendoc format (see notes)
• High Resolution image (see copyright conditions)
• All of the data we use is estimated; see data page