chaparral vs flora

chaparral and flora both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chaparral	Yes	No	No	No
flora	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, flora is a hypernym of chaparral; that is, flora is a word with a broader meaning than chaparral:

Other hypernyms of chaparral include botany, vegetation.

chaparral (noun)	flora (noun)
dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes	(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
	all the plant life in a particular region or period