FLORON Plant Conservation Netherlands

FLORON stands for the Dutch "Floristisch Onderzoek Nederland" and is an organisation dedicated to the research and conservation of vascular plants. The FLORON Foundation is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with over 1500 volunteers and 4 professional staff members. FLORON’s aim is to monitor all vascular plant species through a national monitoring scheme that uses basically the same surveying protocol since 1901. Secondary aims are the protection of endangered plant species.