About the Archive
Archive of Vanished Flora is a repository of plants found in the world's far places, and gone.
Every plant kept here is fictional. Yet each is held with a record of having been "found" in a real place — the rocky North Atlantic coast, the Atacama Desert, the glaciers of Greenland. We record the question "what if such a flower grew there" with the seriousness of a herbarium.
Each specimen carries the coordinates of its discovery, eight plates, its local name and folklore, and where possible a film. Its scientific name, classification, year of description and conservation status are fictional but given under consistent rules, to keep the feel of a true catalogue. Every specimen finally bears a year it was "last seen," closed as Extinct (EX).
Sanguilarmis socotranaBlood-tear TreeSpiranthella nocturnaNight-spiral FlowerGlacianthus groenlandicusGlacier FlowerAestulittora atlanticaLow-tide StarThis archive is not a place for making lies seem true. Rather, we hope that a carefully recorded absence might stir the imagination toward a nature no one has seen.