The Ideal Place To Explore Diverse Flora

Likewise, American flora is as distinct as the country's geography. Many people will be surprised to learn that the United States, while being one of the most industrialized countries, ranks fourth in the world in terms of forest cover (after Russia, Brazil, and Canada). Forests cover around 30% of the area in the United States. And how one-of-a-kind some of those forests are. There is no other area on Earth like Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest, which is home to half of the world's tallest trees.

Other American unusual trees can be found in California's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. These pines predate the Giant Sequoias by millennia. Many of them are far over 2,000 years old, including the 4,770-year-old "Methuselah" tree in Schulman Grove. The native flora of the United States has provided the world with a large number of horticultural and agricultural plants, mostly ornamentals like flowering dogwood, redbud, mountain laurel, bald cypress, southern magnolia, and black locust, which are now cultivated in temperate regions around the world, but also various food plants like blueberries, black raspberries, cranberries, maple syrup and sugar, and pecans, as well as Monterey pine and