Temperate coniferous forest

Temperate coniferous forests are found predominantly in areas with warm summers and cool winters, and vary in their kinds of plant life.

Pine forests support an herbaceous ground layer that may be dominated by grasses and forbs that lend themselves to ecologically important wildfires.

In contrast, the moist conditions found in temperate rain forests favor the dominance by ferns and some forbs.

[1] Forest communities dominated by huge trees (e.g., giant sequoia, Sequoiadendron gigantea; redwood, Sequoia sempervirens), unusual ecological phenomena, occur in western North America, southwestern South America, as well as in the Australasian region in such areas as southeastern Australia and northern New Zealand.

[1] The Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion of western North America harbors diverse and unusual assemblages and displays notable endemism for a number of plant and animal taxa.