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Flora Svecica catalogues Swedish plants as a useful national inventory

In 1745 Carl Linnaeus published Flora Svecica, a catalogue of Swedish plants arranged for a domestic public that wanted names and uses. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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In 1745 Carl Linnaeus published Flora Svecica, a catalogue of Swedish plants arranged for a domestic public that wanted names and uses. Economic botany — dyes, fodder, food — sits beside classification. Öland and Gotland journeys fed it; those journeys can be other rows when dated as travel.

Context

Hats-era Sweden wanted import substitution in plants as in copper. Clergy-naturalists in parishes were the sensor network. Sharing does not erase the author. A flora can serve both teaching and mercantilism.

Vetenskapsakademien at https://www.kva.se/en/the-academy/history/ (opens in a new tab).

Why it matters

Industrial-knowledge path, modest weight. High confidence on 1745.

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Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Carl Linnaeus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He authored the Swedish flora. Students and provincial clergy sent plants.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactFlora Svecica catalogues Swedish plants as a useful national inventory
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1745 · verified

    A national plant inventory aimed at useful species is an industrial-policy knowledge path, modest weight.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences — historyKungl. Vetenskapsakademien · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Carolus LinnaeusEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

KVA at https://www.kva.se/en/the-academy/history/ (opens in a new tab) is the official useful-science home of Linnaeus’s Stockholm project. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus (opens in a new tab) independently lists Flora Svecica among the Swedish inventories.

Vetenskapsakademien).

Established: Flora Svecica appeared in 1745. Not established: a unique yield series of Swedish crops caused by the book. Contribution is recorded as He authored the Swedish flora. Students and provincial clergy sent plants. The impact note is A national plant inventory aimed at useful species is an industrial-policy knowledge path, modest weight. The dated heading stays Flora Svecica catalogues Swedish plants as a useful national inventory on 1745-01-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. A Swedish flora is not the 1753 world catalogue. Mixed effects of Flora Svecica catalogues Swedish plants as a useful national inventory are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Flora Svecica catalogues Swedish plants as a useful national inventory. Naming Carl Linnaeus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1745-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCarl Linnaeus
  2. contributed toFactFlora Svecica catalogues Swedish plants as a useful national inventory
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). Flora Svecica catalogues Swedish plants as a useful national inventory. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-flora-svecica-1745

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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