The vast territories of the North American continent amaze the imagination with a variety of flora. Each landscape zone has a certain number of rare, unique and relict plants growing on its land.
Subtropical deserts and semi-deserts in the south are quickly overgrown with thorny bushes, various cacti, aggressive-prolific prickly pears, harmonious Idrian trees reaching a 10-meter height, grow alternately with stunted but incredibly tenacious trees of the Korifant. All these plants are the true nature of America, examples of long-term evolution.
North of the desert are more temperate climate, cacti gradually give way to shrubs of wormwood, swans and teresken. The wild nature of America is unique in its splendor. The territory of the USA, from the Appalachian Mountains in the east and to the rocky Cordillera in the west, is a series of flowering valleys and barren plateaus, richest pastures on the prairies and endless stony plains. The whole nature of America is built on contrasts. Therefore, the most fertile and picturesque areas are reserved for national parks. The main US reserve, Yellowstone Park, is spread over a huge area of almost a million hectares.
The park was created one hundred and fifty years ago, despite its name - "yellow stone", is one of the greenest places on the planet. Yellowstone Park is famous for its hot springs, geysers and the active but still quiet volcano.
To the east, in Florida, there is another national park, the Everglades. In this park there are rare plants, trees and flowers, only about 2000 names. The park is the only place where all kinds of wild orchids grow. For a long time, the territory of the Everglades Park was tried to improve, in every possible way drained marshy soils, but in the end, by the decision of UNESCO, it was declared a wildlife zone and left alone.
Another US national park, the Death Valley, did not need to be drained, since it is located in the driest place in North America, to the east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in California, where the nature of America is concentrated in its best forms. Its gloomy name was given to the park at the time of the gold rush on its territory, when the searches for gold veins were marked by several deaths. In the Valley of Death grow giant sequoias, such trees are no longer anywhere in the world. The height of the giants is about one hundred meters, and the trunk diameter reaches ten meters. Each tree is considered the property of American society and is inviolable.
Fauna in North America is no less diverse than the plant world. The diversity of the animal world is due to several climatic zones. In cold tundra forests, there are reindeer, polar bears, wild musk oxen, polar wolves, arctic foxes. In the taiga zone, the climate is milder, and hence the nature of America is already different, different from the northern zone. In the taiga live American buffaloes and in a variety of fur-bearing animals, marten, sable, mink and weasel. Large animals are represented by brown bears and wolverines.
In the valley of the Mississippi River you can find unique alligators and no less unique Mississippi turtles. Flamingos, ibis and pelicans live in huge flocks near the water. In the green splendor of the Great River basin, millions of miniature hummingbirds have found shelter and feed themselves. The Missouri River, a tributary of the Mississippi, is also rich in fauna.
The nature of the USA does not tolerate emptiness. Some species of animals and birds of North America disappear, but in general, the ecological situation has the continuation of the life of predatory and herbivorous animals, birds, reptiles and insects. In the place of endangered species, new populations appear.