These are just a few of the many types of plants that take up root in the Taiga.
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1. Deciduous Trees:
Deciduous trees have a live-fast-die-young approach to their life cycle; each year, they put out a whole tree-full of new leaves, only to have them all die in the fall. Deciduous leaves are great at soaking up lots of sunlight and energy for the tree, but they’re also expensive to make.
2. Conifer Trees (Redwood, Spruce, Cypress, Pine, and Kauri):
Conifers usually grow slower than their deciduous counterparts because they’re often already growing in nutrient-limited soils, and they’re spending a lot of the nutrients they do have in creating super-needles. They use these needles for a long time, though—from two to five years or longer. These trees also benefit from forest fires, letting the ground foliage die and give space for new trees to sprout.
3. Wide variety of mosses:
These moses grow along the forest floor and take in nutrients from the soil, and provide a layer that traps in water to keep the floor moist. Some of them have also adapted to work alongside the large trees of the taiga
4. Ferns:
Green plants that spread through thosands of small spores that spread on the fur of animals and through the wind.
