its not ponce de leon found Florida and saw so many flowers and flowers in spanish is flores so they called Florida
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Florida got its name from the Conquistador Juan Ponce de León.
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Ponce De Leon named it La Florida. Historians believe he landed in Florida around Easter so there was an abundance of flowers in bloom. The name he gave it was Spanish for flowery, abounding with flowers, or covered in flowers.
La Florida " The State With Flowers"
No. Florida doesn't mean flowers. Flowers in a noun meaning blossom of a plant and seed bearings that grow in the ground when you look after it right. Florida is a City state, it doesn't mean flowers.
Florida means " of flowers."
for flowers
Florida, is a spanish word meaning "flowers"