The regions of India are diverse and support a large range of plants. There are at least 18,000 different flowering plants in India, and this website covers some of the most common trees and shrubs found in India, as well as Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

The plant habitat in India is very rich and diverse, embracing different ecosystems. Many plants are native to the region, and species were introduced over millennia by traders and colonisers such as the Portuguese, British, and Mughals.

Below are the various identified regions that spread across India, providing different habitats:

Western Himalaya

Broad-leaved woods with evergreen and deciduous trees can be found everywhere from Kashmir to Kumaon to west Nepal.

Eastern Himalaya

It is a tapestry of temperatures: subalpine coniferous forests, subtropical jungle, savannah, and rich alpine meadows stretching from North Bengal, Sikkim, and Nepal to Arunachal Pradesh.

North-west Dry Region

Thar desert, stretching from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Gujarat.

Gangetic Plains

Stretching from plains of West Uttar Pradesh to Hoogly delta and forests of Sunderbans.

The Western Ghats

Home to four tropical and subtropical moist broadleaved forest ecoregions: the North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests, the North Western Ghats rainforests, the South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests, and the South Western Ghats rain forests, which stretch from south Gujarat to Kanyakumari.

Central Indian Region

Satpura range, tropical thorn forests and mangroves on delta of Godavari.

Deccan and Carnatic

The Central Deccan Plateau has dry deciduous forests. This forest ecoregion of southern India stretches from Peninsular India, south of the Godavari, to Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.

North-east India

Evergreen rainforests, tropical semi-evergreen forests and sub tropical hill forests.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Evergreen forests, semi-evergreen forests, and deciduous forests, as well as mangroves and wetlands.