Native Plants of Afghanistan by Ecoregion

Browse native plants of Afghanistan by ecoregion. Each ecoregion reflects a distinct native plant community, identified from real-world occurrence data. Choose one below to see its native species.

Registan–North Pakistan sandy desert Baluchistan xeric woodlands Sulaiman Range alpine meadows Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands Sulaiman Range alpine meadows Ghorat–Hazarajat alpine meadow Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands Central Persian desert basins Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands East Afghan montane conifer forests Sulaiman Range alpine meadows Ghorat–Hazarajat alpine meadow Ghorat–Hazarajat alpine meadow Ghorat–Hazarajat alpine meadow Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands Ghorat–Hazarajat alpine meadow Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Afghan Mountains semi-desert Ghorat–Hazarajat alpine meadow Ghorat–Hazarajat alpine meadow Ghorat–Hazarajat alpine meadow Ghorat–Hazarajat alpine meadow Hindu Kush alpine meadow Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests Afghan Mountains semi-desert East Afghan montane conifer forests Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows Hindu Kush alpine meadow Paropamisus xeric woodlands Afghan Mountains semi-desert Rock and Ice Rock and Ice Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe Hindu Kush alpine meadow Pamir alpine desert and tundra Gissaro–Alai open woodlands

* How these results were determined: ecoregion boundaries come from a global habitat classification developed by conservation scientists at the World Wildlife Fund. Plant occurrence records come from GBIF (the Global Biodiversity Information Facility), an international open-data network built largely from citizen and academic scientists who photograph plants in the field and upload the sighting with GPS coordinates through apps like iNaturalist. We cross-reference each plant's occurrence points against the ecoregion boundaries and each species' known native range in this country to flag which matches are best supported by the evidence. You can add further filters to these results such as state, trees, wildflowers, light, or soil type using the search box once you finish clicking through to a listing. Because the ecoregion plant listings depend on citizen-science mobile phone data, they are not fully complete and some ecorgions are skipped due to lack of data.