What is life for plants that live in Taiga?

The time for growth of a plant is usually less than 3 months and after that summer dissapears in Taiga. There are not a lot of species of plants in the taiga because of the harsh conditions. Not many plants can survive the extreme cold of the taiga winter. read more

While the cold, harsh climate of the taiga means that there is less diversity in plant and animal life than in more temperate biomes, plants such as conifers and animals such as wolves and caribou have adapted to meet the challenges of the environment. The taiga, or boreal forest, is a wooded biome. read more

There are not a lot of species of plants in the taiga because of the harsh conditions. Not many plants can survive the extreme cold of the taiga winter. There are some lichens and mosses, but most plants are coniferous trees like pine, white spruce, hemlock and douglas fir. read more

It has many adaptations that enable it to live in the taiga. This gale often grows in acidic peat bogs that are very poor in nitrogen. To withstand these growing conditions, the roots of the myrica gale have nitrogen fixing actinobacteria which enable the plant to survive. The plant has a scent that repels potentially harmful insects. read more