Flora

Every plant the game draws, from the grass at your feet to the world trees. The year has 64 days: spring is days 1 to 16, summer 17 to 32, autumn 33 to 48 and winter 49 to 64.

Trees

Plant	What it is
Trees	The 25 kinds of wild tree and which land each grows in.
Oak	The broad oak of the temperate forests and the hills.
Beech	The tall smooth-barked beech of the temperate forests.
Birch	The slender white birch of the cool woods and the steppe streams.
Spruce	The dark spruce, the main tree of the taiga.
Larch	The light conifer of the taiga that turns gold and drops its needles.
Redwood	The giant of the temperate rain forest.
Mossy maple	The leaning, moss-hung maple of the temperate rain forest.
Tree fern	The fern grown into a small tree, in the temperate rain forest.
Kapok	The towering buttressed tree of the jungle.
Strangler fig	The jungle fig grown round a tree it has smothered.
Coconut palm	The curved palm of the jungle and the warm coasts.
Acacia	The flat-topped tree of the savanna.
Baobab	The bottle-trunked tree of the savanna.
Olive	The gnarled silvery olive of the shrubland.
Cypress	The tall dark spire of the shrubland.
Cork oak	The stripped, crooked oak of the shrubland.
Poplar	The tall lone column of the steppe.
Date palm	The straight palm of the desert oases.
Dragon’s blood tree	The rare umbrella-shaped tree of the desert.
Dwarf willow	The knee-high willow mats of the tundra.
Dwarf birch	The waist-high birch of the tundra.
Treeline pine	The wind-twisted pine of the high mountains.
Weeping willow	The willow hanging over the rivers, lakes and marshes.
Alder	The narrow dark tree of the waterside.
Coast pine	The windswept pine of the cool coasts.
Fruit trees	The apple and pear trees of the gardens and orchards.
Pollards	The great pollarded oaks standing over the commons.
Hedgerow trees	The oaks and ash left standing in the field and roadside hedges.
Green trees	The big old oak or elm on each village green.
World trees	The one great tree at the heart of each ancient grove.

Shrubs

Plant	What it is
Bushes	The leafy bushes of nearly every green land.
Berry bushes	The low forest-floor shrubs that bear red berries in late summer.
Dry shrubs	The scrubby brush of the dry lands and salt marshes.
Gorse and broom	The yellow-flowering bushes of the heath.
Heather	The low purple-flowering clumps of the heath.
Hawthorn	The main hedge shrub, white in late spring and red with haws in autumn.
Blackthorn	The hedge shrub that flowers white on bare twigs in early spring.
Brambles	The trailing briars in the roadside hedges.
Dog roses	The wild roses climbing through the roadside hedges.

Ground plants

Plant	What it is
Grass	The short grass tufts that grow over most of the disc.
Tall grass	The long grass of the steppe, the savanna and the jungle.
Wildflowers	The yellow, white and purple flowers of the open land.
Bluebells	The spring flowers that carpet the forest floor.
Cow parsley	The white lacy flowers along the roadside verges in spring.
Poppies	The red flowers along the roadside verges in summer.
Ferns	The ferns of the forest floor and the jungle.
Reeds	The reeds of the marshes and the lake shallows.
Lily pads	The water lilies floating on still lakes and ponds in summer.
Seaweed	The wrack left along the strandline by the high tide.
Mushrooms	The red-capped mushrooms of the autumn forest floor.

Fields and gardens

Plant	What it is
Hay and pasture	The grass of the meadows: mown for hay or grazed short.
Fallow weeds	The grass and weeds on the field left fallow each year.
Garden vegetables	Cabbages, leeks, beans and roots in the house gardens.
Wheat	A field crop: see Harvest.
Rye	A field crop: see Harvest.
Oats	A field crop: see Harvest.
Beans	A field crop: see Harvest.
Barley	A field crop: see Harvest.
Flax	A field crop: see Harvest.