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# `flora`: Observations of flora species and seasonal development


**Licenses:**

-   [CCO 1.0 UNIVERSAL](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
-   [Academic Free License 3.0](https://opensource.org/licenses/AFL-3.0)

**Version:** 1.2.3

A dataset containing flora species records and their observed growth stages across different environments.

## Contributors

-   Jane Dölitz (<jane-doelitz@example.com>): creator
-   John Smith (<john-smith@example.com>): author, data collector

## Resources

### `species_catalog`: Flora Species

This resource contains a catalog of flora species.

-   Path: `resources/species_catalog/data.parquet`
-   Primary key: (`species_id`)
-   Foreign keys:
    -   From fields (`parent_species_id`) to fields (`species_id`) in resource `species_catalog`

| Title | Name | Type | Description |
|-------|------|------|-------------|
| Species ID | `species_id` | integer | The unique identifier for each species. |
| Scientific name | `scientific_name` | string | The Latin name of the species. |
| Common name | `common_name` | string | The common name of the species. |
| Family | `family` | string | The Latin family to which the species belongs. |
| Parent Species | `parent_species_id` | integer | The parent species of this species. |

: Fields in the `species_catalog` resource.

### `location_catalog`: Flora Species Locations

This resource contains a catalog of flora species locations.

-   Path: `resources/location_catalog/data.parquet`
-   Primary key: (`region`, `country`)

| Title | Name | Type | Description |
|-------|------|------|-------------|
| Region | `region` | string | The region the location is in. |
| Country | `country` | string | The country the location is in. |
| Local Name | `local_name` | string | The name of the location in the local language. |

: Fields in the `location_catalog` resource.

### `growth_records`: Growth Stage Records

This resource contains records of observed growth stages for various flora species.

-   Path: `resources/growth_records/data.parquet`
-   Primary key: (`record_id`)
-   Foreign keys:
    -   From fields (`species_id`) to fields (`species_id`) in resource `species_catalog`
    -   From fields (`location_region`, `location_country`) to fields (`region`, `country`) in resource `location_catalog`

| Title | Name | Type | Description |
|-------|------|------|-------------|
| Record ID | `record_id` | integer | The unique identifier for each growth record. |
| Species | `species_id` | integer | The species the observation was made for. |
| Observation date | `observation_date` | date | The date when the observation was made. |
| Growth Stage | `growth_stage` | string | The observed growth stage of the species. |
| Location Region | `location_region` | string | The region of the location. |
| Location Country | `location_country` | string | The country of the location. |

: Fields in the `growth_records` resource.
