Browse native plants of India by ecoregion. Each ecoregion reflects a distinct native plant community, identified from real-world occurrence data. Choose one below to see its native species.
- Andaman Islands rain forests
- Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
- Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
- Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
- Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests
- Deccan thorn scrub forests
- East Deccan dry evergreen forests
- Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
- Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
- Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
- Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests
- Godavari–Krishna mangroves
- Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
- Himalayan subtropical pine forests
- Indus River Delta–Arabian Sea mangroves
- Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
- Khathiar–Gir dry deciduous forests
- Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
- Malabar Coast moist forests
- Maldives–Lakshadweep–Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests
- Meghalaya subtropical forests
- Mizoram–Manipur–Kachin rain forests
- Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
- North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
- North Western Ghats montane rain forests
- Northeast India–Myanmar pine forests
- Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
- Northern dry deciduous forests
- Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
- Northwestern thorn scrub forests
- Orissa semi-evergreen forests
- Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh
- South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
- South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
- South Western Ghats montane rain forests
- Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests
- Sundarbans mangroves
- Terai–Duar savanna and grasslands
- Thar desert
- Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
- Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
- Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
- Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
* 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.