# Flora Svecica catalogues Swedish plants as a useful national inventory

Date: 1745

## The fact

In 1745 [Carl Linnaeus](/people/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. Do not treat later Swedish forestry law as this 1745 book.

Vetenskapsakademien at https://www.kva.se/en/the-academy/history/.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences — history (https://www.kva.se/en/the-academy/history/; Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien).

## Significance

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

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

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. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. 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. The attached driver is [industrial-policy-activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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.

## People

- Carl Linnaeus: https://factrail.ai/people/carl-linnaeus

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.kva.se/en/the-academy/history/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-flora-svecica-1745