A zonal plant is a “species or variety which is of value in determining floral zones.” Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville defined the expression.[1] He described "the best method of procedure in a new area to establish the (floral) zones by means of a comparatively small number of the best zonal plants, and afterwards to arrange the other less important [plants] in their proper places."[1]
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