#plain floserd

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Somehow I finished making this before the year ended, but..

Here's some info sheet for Floserds, for the different variations of Floserds!!!

First we have:

Plain Floserds, the example here being Chamomile!!!

Plain Floserds are found in multiple biomes, from savannahs to grasslands to rainforests to forests to plains. Plain Floserds have average fluff, soft small padding to care with, dull hooves to pick & squash berries, and soft tails.

They have a diet of berries, grass, hay, leaves, and fruit.

They move on land, and can be both bipedal & quadrupedal.

And some extra facts not on the sheet:

Plain Floserds one day began a tradition of painting out their stories, using squashed berries to tell their tales. They write their stories anywhere, from caves to rocks to trees to just any surface they find before they continue their travel. They are quite the artists, but their symbols are hard to understand...

Next is:

Tundra Floserds, the example being Rose!!

Tundra Floserds are typically spotted in snowy tundra biomes, but can be spotted in snowy taiga biomes. They usually have fluffy fur to stay warm, sharp hooves to dig through ice, and typically are more common to have leaves to store water.

They have a diet of berries, grass, leaves, shrubs, and fruit.

They move on land, and can be both bipedal and quadrupedal.

And some extra facts not on the sheet:

Tundra Floserds are actually the best swimmers of all the land floserds, but they don't swim for long periods of time, as the water is still quite cold.

Next:

Desert Floserds, with Poppy as an example!!!

Desert Floserds reside in the biome that matches their name (Desert biomes). They have long, wide ears to help keep cool, a light yet thick coat to keep cool during the day & warm at night, slitted nostrils and fur that covers their eyes to defend from sand, dull hooves & horns for strong hits, climbing, and digging, and tough padding for tough surfaces and climbing. Desert Floserds are usually shorter than average Floserds.

They have a diet of grass and cactus fruit.

They move on land, and can be both bipedal & quadrupedal.

Some extra facts not on the sheet:

Desert Floserds will bury themselves mainly in the sand, with their tail sticking out, for many reasons: photosynthesis, sleeping, and as camouflage.

Next up:

Water Floserds, with Lily as the example!!

Water Floserds are found in large biomes of water, from lakes to the ocean. They have large ears with small openings, whiskers to feel around, soft paws to carefully handle food, slitted nostrils, and a light underbelly. Water Floserds change in size depending on the body of water, being largest in oceans.

They have a diet of seaweed & kelp.

They don't move on land, and are aquatic, so they only swim.

Some extra facts not on the sheet:

Water Floserds can blow bubbles underwater for entertainment, and can also use echolocation to find one another.

Finally, we have:

Parasitic Floserds, with Langsi as an example!!

Parasitic Floserds can be found nearly everywhere. They stick in packs, compared to other Floserds' herds, and move faster than average. Parasitic Floserds have sharp fangs, hooves, and horns to attack with, tougher padding for defense, and a pouch to carry food or young Parasitic Floserd in as they travel. They have sharp hearing, and sharp eyesight.

They have a diet of flowers, floserds, and sap.

They mainly move on land, and can be Bipedal & Quadrupedal.

Some extra facts not on the sheet:

While Parasitic Floserds are seen as dangerous and uncaring by other Floserds, Parasitic Floserds care a lot for their pack. If one member of the pack is injured or harmed, they will make sure that the member is cared for, helped, and fed.

Also, not all Parasitic Floserds have a pouch, they either have udders or a pouch. They can't have both, so usually the udderless Parasitic Floserds are considered the carriers. They have pouches to carry because Parasitic Floserds move quicker than most Floserds do on average, making it hard to carry their food in their hands, or for their young to catch up, so whatever needs to be is put in the pouch.

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Subspecies (Summaries)

Floserds, being the more broad term of the species, are very well-known as cows with flower tails. However, there are different sections to this species

Plain Floserds

Plain Floserds, while their name sounds like they're plain, are floserds commonly found in more calmer climates and biomes, like savannahs, rainforests, forests, grasslands, and of course: plains. Plain Floserds can be either bipedal or quadrupedal. There is no specific type of personality for this subspecies.

Tundra Floserds

Tundra Floserds are floserds found in colder climates and biomes, but aren't specifically found in Tundra biomes, as they can also be in Taiga biomes. Tundra Floserds have thicker fur to keep themself warm in such colder climates, and have slightly sharper hooves to access water, commonly by breaking small holes in ice to drink from. Tundra Floserds can be either bipedal or quadrupedal. There is also no specific personality type for this subspecies.

Water Floserds

Water Floserds are the mermaid-like floserds, who live in marine biomes, and can be found in lakes, ponds, rivers, seas, and the ocean. Their size can change depending on their location, from being quite small, to seemingly quite large. Water Floserds don't have to worry too often about drinking water, since they're surrounded by it, but do eat at seaweed and other underwater plants. Water Floserds cannot be bipedal nor quadrupedal, since they do not have back legs. Water Floserds are mainly known to be playful, but besides that have no specific personality type.

Parasitic Floserds

Parasitic Floserds are floserds that feast on the nutrients of other plants, and, more commonly, other floserds. Parasitic Floserds are often nicknamed "Vampire Floserds" as they do sometimes act vampire-like, a strong example being Langsdorffia Floserds or Mistletoe Floserds. Parasitic Floserds can be either bipedal or quadrupedal. They also have no specific personality type, despite being stereotyped by other Floserd subspecies to be aggressive.

Desert Floserds

Desert Floserds are Floserds found in deserts. These Floserds are commonly smaller than other land floserds. Desert Floserds have larger and tougher paw pads compared to other Floserd Subspecies, as they commonly get water from cactus fruit, and they are usually shorter than the cacti, so their tough pads help them not get hurt by the pricks. They also have slitted nostrils, unlike most Floserds, and their hair more commonly covers their eyes (but still lets them see through), so that sand doesn't blow into their eyes and nose. Desert Floserds can be either bipedal or quadrupedal. There's no specific personality type for this subspecies.

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Lifestyle of a Floserd

(idk what else to call this section)

This'll explain things about a Floserd's life, like how they're born, what they eat, and how mating exactly works for them

Floserds are grown in the ground, like most plants. They take up nutrients in the ground, and take up water either through groundwater, or from rain (or maybe if there's a little source of water nearby. Or, of course, if it's a Water Floserd, and is surrounded by water. When there's getting close to finishing growing, a bud will appear above the ground, slowly. The bud doesn't flower when it's finished, however, as this bud is the Floserd's tail, and will grow alongside them.

When they're finished growing, a baby Floserd digs itself out of the soil, and is ready to explore the world.

Floserds mainly eat a diet of things like hay or grain, basically what real cows eat. However, they will sometimes photosynthesize, and lay in the sun to absorb energy This can slightly vary depending on the varient though (above is for Plain Floserds)

Tundra Floserds will eat grass & grain, and will occassionaly eat berries.

Water Floserds eat seaweed, and other herbivore foods in water. Sometimes (if accessable) they will reach onto land for a lil nibble of grass, as a treat (they don't need it to survive, just sometimes they like the taste)

All of the Floserd varients drink water, the water varient accessing it the easiest (of course)

(also btw, though Floserds are herbivores, they are not cannibals and will not eat one another)

Now, for the mating process (they don't mate in the way that's probably expected)

For Floserd mating, it doesn't depend on parts, nor does it exactly require having a partner to do it.

If two (or more) Floserds grow in love with each other, then one of them will lay an egg (YES they lay eggs, don't ask), which look like seeds, and then they'll pollinate it using the flower/herb of their tails.

Of course, there could just be one, who'll lay an egg, and pollinate it alone.

After this process, they wait some time for the baby to grow (they're not a species to abandon their young, so they'll stay close by as they wait for the baby to grow), and once the baby does, they'll nurture and take care of it. The only case of a Floserd not raising its young would be if the parent Floserd died before the baby finished growing (or if the herd that the parent Floserd belongs in begins to move locations before the baby grows all the way).

Floserds live basically the same lifespan of an average cow.

(also their seed variates depending on the flower/herb/weed of the parent Floserd that laid the egg)

Floserds travel & live in herds mainly, unless an individual Floserd decides to live alone, which is rare for a Floserd to do. They stay in herds for protection, and also for comfort, as they (technically) have predators (what are the predators? idk... wolves... or any carnivore/omnivore fursona? I guess mainly omnivores?)

Floserd herds (that's kinda funny to say imo) are slightly mixed up of bipedal & quadrupedal Floserds. However, they mainly stay the varient (no Plain Floserd & Water Floserd herds for example. Either Plain Floserd herds or Water Floserd herds, not a mix). However, this doesn't automatically imply they hate other varients, it's just rare to see them herd with other varients

anyways, I can't think of any more required info, cus I think this is enough for their lifestyle!

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Floserd Traits Info WOOOO-

Okay so I found out I have all my notes still on a computer (that I don't often use so I didn't realize) So I can post the true traits & other info!!

Ill mark the other one as old to mark the difference, but I won't delete it, as I may fuse details from that w/ the official one!!

So as I stated before, there are 3 types of traits:

Casual/Common Traits

Rare/Uncommon Traits

Impossible Traits

Casual Traits

Casual Traits (which is what my notes originally called them, but they can also be called Common Traits) are traits that either are always there (casual), or traits that aren't always there, but are there most of the time (common)

Some examples of casual traits are:

Hooves

Flower/Herb tails

Ears (which change in length from short-long)

Paw Beans (cus why the heck not)

Snout shape (didn't state this anywhere before, but yeah their snout always has that cow snout shape) (their snout doesn't always look like how I draw em of course, it's just always a cow snout, & depends on how you draw cow snouts)

Fur

And some example of common traits are:

Udders

Horns

Fur spots (either no spots, or any form of spot patterns real cows have)

Fur fluff (smooth fur, slightly fluffy, very fluffy)

Uncommon/Rare Traits

Now, these traits (which funnily enough, I never called them uncommon traits ever until I first typed them out here, but now they're also called uncommon), the uncommon/rare traits, these are traits that aren't always there, but can still be there, so they aren't impossible.

Some example of these are:

Back leaves (look like wings, but can't fly with them. They still move tho, just the floserds with these cannot fly with em)

2-3 tails (which must be the same herb/flower at the end)

Weed tails

Tail Leaves

Very tall height (this is only for the Water Floserds, as their height/length depend on where they are. Thus, ocean Water Floserds can be pretty big. However, they're not as big as a certain Floserd that has yet to be revealed, but will be called for now "The One who Started it All", or just "The One" for short. Ocean Water Floserds cannot & will never be as tall or taller than "The One", but their tall genes do come from "The One". It's like... a distant gene, or whatever it's called.) (as I said in my notes: Imagine Black Pearl Cookie from Cookie Run Kingdom or the Whaletaur from Centaur World)

Impossible Traits

Finally, there's the impossible traits, which are traits that Floserds just... cannot have

These consist of:

Mating parts/organs(?) (I don't know how to explain this really. They have parts to pee & poop, but not parts to mate with. So no Floserds mating like that, but they can go to the bathroom. Idk this is just really hard to explain...)

4-9+ tails (the maximum amount of tails is 3 due to mutation, but you cannot go over that sadly)

2-3 tails that don't match (if the Floserd has a mutation of multiple tails, it must still be the same flower/herb/weed)

Functioning wings (again, they can't fly, it's just extra body part mutation. Like... imagine a human with a tail. They can't move it, but it had some use in the past. For the Floserd Wings, their old function was basically flower stem leaves. That's the function they had. They were never intended to be wings, just to absorb water through, except now they drink water so the leaves aren't used much)

Ears past the shoulder length (sorry, the ears cannot be too long. Sure it can be close, but no excessive passing, like ears dragging on the floor. No.)

Horns that are too big (they can't be excessively big, but they can be kinda big)

Height as tall as/taller than "The One who Started it All" (as stated, only Water Floserds can get close, but again, only close to the height of "The One")

Hopefully these specifications aren't too much, if so I'm sorry, but yeah these are the trait rules!!

(Also to include the images I had last time as examples:)

(and also another image I didn't have last time:)

Big cow horns that are the maximum horn length for Floserds:

Big cow horns that are an example of "too big" for Floserds:

Cow mark examples that Floserds can have:

(or just any cow markings you see that are real natural cow marks)

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Oh crap all of the info I had on Floserds was on my tablet...

Welp, looks like I'll be spitballin off of memory...

Floserds have 3 categories for traits (as I can remember)

There are:

Common traits

Uncommon/Rare traits

Impossible Traits/traits they cannot have

Common Traits

Common traits for Floserds split into traits they always have, and traits that they don't always have, but are just common.

Some traits that are always there are their hooves, their flower tails, and their paw beans (though it is strange that they even have beans, since cows dont, but hush)

Traits that are more common than always there are their udders, spots, and their horns, so some Floserds are udderless, some are spotless, and some are hornless

Rare Traits

Then, there's the uncommon/rare traits. There's a chance these were separate sections, but I cant check lol, so they're the same until proven otherwise

There are many rare traits, but one that I would like to start off with are wings

I'm starting off with the wings because these wings are not exactly functionable. Sure, they can move, but they don't work with flying. It's just a weird mutation, where the leaves of the herb became wing-like features. You can't have a flying Floserd.

The wing trait is 2 large leaves on their back (I say large because theyre not regular flower leaf size), which can be small, or medium in size compared to the Floserd. They can't be bigger than the Floserd, and again, they don't actually work to fly.

Some more rare traits are 2 or 3 tails (which must be the same flower/herb), and different fur amounts, which can be slightly fluffy (ex. Chamomile), medium amount of fluff (ex. Rose, which is the name I went with for the Tundra Floserd example), and very fluffy (which I didn't get to make an example for yet). There are also their ear lengths, which can be in a range of small (no ex), medium (ex. Milk, which is the name I decided for the Quadrupedal Floserd example), and long (ex. Chamomile, Rose, & Lily)

There are probably more rare traits, but I sadly cannot remember them all...

Impossible Traits

Finally, there are traits that Floserds can, and never will, have.

We start off strong with them not having those parts that people find 'hot'. No private parts, no badonkers, no weewoos (Im sorry I found it kinda funny to type that). The only genitalia(?) they have are buttholes, and that's that. But yeah they dont do the do. They dont partake in hanky panky (I am never typing that one again)

Secondly, they can't have more than 3 tails. This means you cannot have a Floserd with 4+ tails, only 1-3 tails.

Thirdly, the ears cannot be excessively long. It can be small, and it can be long enough to go slightly past the shoulders/at the shoulders, but it can't be so long it's touching the ground. (So if you imagine Billie from Billie Bust Up, you can't have a Floserd with ears as long as them

Fourthly, the horns also can't be excessively long.

Look at this bull for example

this is how long "excessively long" would be on a Floserd, so a Floserd cannot have horns like this

The longest horns they can have would probably be this (another bull image) (+ smol babey):

Fifthly (which I technically already went over), no functioning wings. They can have leaf wings, but they can't fly with them.

Sixly (which I dont think I actually had originally), no other markings. All of the markings Floserds can have should be what cows can have. So spots are an example, but any cow marks (I don't know what other cow marks are called, so just search up "Cow markings" and go off of that. If you see a cow image w/ a barcode, don't even consider making a floserd w/ barcode marks, cus that image doesn't count. Yes I did see a cow w/ a barcode mark put on it when I searched up cow markings)

There's probably more, but when/if I get my tablet back working, then I'll check & see if this is accurate, and I'll edit this if it's not

(Oh yeah also they can wear any accessory, like a small flower, a hat, a bell, and a bandana for a few examples)

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okay so I finally drew a quadrupedal Floserd, so here’s the 4 different types of Floserds:

Plain Floserd

ex. Chamomile (the Chamomile Floserd)

Tundra Floserd

ex. Unnamed (the Tundra Rose Floserd)

Water Floserd

ex. Lily (the Water Lily Floserd)

And finally

the Quadrupedal Floserd - Plain Floserd version

ex. Unnamed (the Milkthistle Floserd)

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Okay I was gonna draw some things out to help, but I don’t feel like drawing rn (idk why, I strangely don’t wanna try and make some Floserds rn, hopefully I will soon), so I’ll share info with older drawings

Floserds are flower themed cows, as I explained vaguely before, but not with much information.

Floserds can be many different types of flowers, and some can produce tea (not milk). The tea’s probably, like, lukewarm when it comes out like that, so it’d have to be heated up (or cooled down, depending on the tea)

Not all floserds have udders, though. Some, like Chamomile, do, but some don’t.

There are also different types of Floserds. There’s the Floserds found in plains, the Floserds found in Tundras, and Floserds found in water (like lakes, oceans, etc.). There also also quadrupedal versions of the plain & tundra Floserds (the water ones are more like mermaids)

here’s an example of a Tundra one:

(If I remember this one’s based on a Tundra Rose)

here’s an example of a water one:

(This one’s based on the flower of a lily pad)

And I never drew a quadrupedal one so I’ll have to do that eventually, but it’s basically just a Floserd on all 4 legs instead of being bipedal

Eventually I’ll get into other topics, like:

Features they can have

Features they can’t have

Size

Lore/Origin

Lifespan

Diets

and extra stuff!!

Also, I guess I’ll clarify this now, even though they’re called ‘Flower cows’, basically they’re more like herbs, since they don’t have to be flowers, and can be other things like weeds (take that how you wish)