This paper provides a comprehensive review of Russian academic works (2000–2025) on the literary representation of plants in world literature. Drawing on dissertations, mono-graphs, encyclopedias, and scholarly articles, the study offers the first systematic overview of research examining botanical imagery with both fixed and non-fixed semantic functions. The analysis demonstrates that, since early Romanticism, plant imagery has acquired a pronounced imaginative dimension. De-spite the growing prominence of polysemous botanical motifs from the 19th century on-ward, archetypal plant symbols persist even in contemporary texts. Key thematic clusters identified include: the study of floriography (the “language of flowers” or “selam”), floral poetic garlands and bouquets, the rose motif, the Christmas tree symbol, and unique autho-rial botanical constructions. The paper further presents an original analytical framework for interpreting key floral symbols — such as the rose, the fir tree, the nameless flower, the blue flower, and flowers of evil — con-textualizing them within broader literary dis-course. Findings indicate a significant increase in floropoetics scholarship between 2000 and 2025, signaling the maturation of this research domain. It has been demonstrated that a methodology for the study of plants is evolving, along with the establishment of a specialized terminology system. It has been found that the representation of plants has been thor-oughly examined by domestic researchers; however, the field of floropoetics requires further development.