About Svea Flora (Free)
Note: the app itself is in swedish language only!
You need to know basic swedish to be able to use this app at all.
Get to know the most common wild plants with Svea Flora! This app contains a set of quizzes and also a basic reference flora. 257 of the more common swedish plants are included, with beautiful illustrations.
Quizzes include:
Swedish (easier)
Swedish
Latin (easier)
Latin
Province Flowers (landskapsblommor)
If the result is good enough you'll get a virtual medal. Can you take the silver or even gold in all categories!?
You can also practise or browse different categories of plants. Categories: Trees, Rice & shrubs, grass and sedges, Aquatic Plants, Ferns, Herbs white flowers, blue flowers Herbs, Herbs violet flowers, yellow flowers Herbs, Herbs red flowers.
You are also able to use the app as a more traditional flora / reference and browse the many plants. Picture, name in Swedish and Latin, and family name are presented. Also a list of the Swedish "landskapsblommor". Want to know more? There are direct links to detailed articles in the swedish site "Den Virtuella Floran" of all plants.
This version is free and includes advertising.
Developed by JQuery and Phonegap.
Plant illustrations are based on Project Runeberg's edition of Bilder ur Nordens Flora (by C. A. M. Lindman)
Swedish and Latin name (with exceptions) from Checklista över Nordens kärlväxter (by Thomas Karlsson)
Links to pages in Den Virtuella Floran (by Arne and Anna-Lena Anderberg)
Image Missing-flower and Ramnorok logo by Matthias Guhl
Keywords:
Flora, Fickflora, Sverige, Svensk, Svenska, Sveriges, Nordens, Nordiska, Nordisk, Växter, Växt, Blommor, Blomma, Frågesport, Quiz, Träd, Buskar, Gräs, Latin, Latinska, Vetenskapliga, Arter, bläddra, Landskap, Landskapsblommor, Landskapsblomma, Växtillustrationer, Botanik, Kärlväxter, Lärorik, Utbildning, Skola, Medalj, Phonegap, JQuery, Mobile, Javascript, HTML5, HTML, CSS,
by X####:
So far no obvious downsides. An optional pause button would be great but really annoying if anyone but me plays.