The Flora of Samoa: The Native and Naturalized Plants of the Samoan Archipelago

This project presents the first published comprehensive flora of the archipelago, (excluding ferns and fern allies) of the Samoan archipelago, including both American Samoa and the Independent State of Samoa. The flora is estimated to be 810 species and comprises about 540 native species of flowering plants, two thirds of them dicots. An additional 250 or so species are naturalized or adventive (Whistler 1988b). The fern flora is estimated to comprise 230 species.