Estonia is a small, heavily forested country situated on the Baltic Sea.
It is a part of the Euro-Siberian region of terrestrial Palearctic realm, and the Temperate Northern Atlantic marine ecoregion.
According to the WWF, the territory of Estonia belongs to the ecoregion of Sarmatic mixed forests.
These include, for example, Saaremaa yellow rattle (Rhinanthus osiliensis) and Estonian saw-wort (Saussurea esthonica).
[2] The indigenous flora of Estonia includes 1441 species of vascular plants (with subspecies the number reaches 1538[2]).