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Flora

The Flora of Tamriel

A Continental Botanical Index for Travel, Survival, Magic, and Culture


Foundational Principles

Flora in Tamriel functions as infrastructure. Crops dictate power, sacred groves dictate law, and alchemical plants dictate risk. Every province expresses ideology through what it cultivates, protects, weaponizes, or forbids. This index consolidates known, implied, and logically necessary flora by region, emphasizing repeat-reference usability for narration, survival rulings, ritual context, and environmental storytelling.


SKYRIM — Boreal, Alpine, Volcanic

Cold-Climate Staples

  • Snowberries

  • Juniper Berries

  • Tundra Cotton

  • Cave Wheat

  • Pale Barley

  • Frost Turnips

  • Whitecap Mushrooms

  • Root Tangle Tubers

Medicinal / Alchemical

  • Blue Mountain Flower

  • Purple Mountain Flower

  • Canis Root

  • Hanging Moss

  • Dragon’s Tongue (geothermal zones)

  • Redwort

  • Ice-Cap Fungus

  • Bitterfrost Bulb

Timber & Woodland Growth

  • Nordic Pine

  • Snow Fir

  • White Birch

  • Ironwood (rarer alpine stands)

  • Ashwood (volcanic zones)

Sacred / Funerary Plants

  • The Gildergreen

  • Hearth Pines

  • Barrow-Thorn Shrubs

  • Ancestor Moss

Hostile / Environmental

  • Frost Lotus

  • Iceblight Fungus

  • Whisper Reeds

  • Glacier Bloom


CYRODIIL — Temperate Heartland

Cereal Crops

  • Wheat

  • Barley

  • Rye

  • Oats

  • Rice (Nibenay Basin)

Vegetables / Roots

  • Potatoes

  • Onions

  • Turnips

  • Carrots

  • Beans

  • Peas

Fruits & Vines

  • Apples

  • Pears

  • Plums

  • Grapes

  • Blackcurrant Bushes

Wild / Alchemical Plants

  • Nightshade

  • Mandrake Root

  • Green Stain Moss

  • Milk Thistle

  • Stinkhorn Fungus

  • Goldleaf Petals

  • White Cap Fungus

Imperial Symbolic Flora

  • White-Gold Ivy

  • Law Oaks

  • Execution Willows

  • Laurel Groves

Decorative / Civic Plants

  • Rose Hedges

  • Marble Creepers

  • Sunspike Lilies


HIGH ROCK — Coastal & Feudal

Common Growth

  • Heather

  • Bracken Fern

  • Sweetgrass

  • Foxglove

  • Thistle

Estate Herbs

  • Lavender

  • Rosemary

  • Wormwood

  • Sage

  • Churchmoss

Magical / Arcane Plants

  • Spire Root

  • Focus Fern

  • Void Fungus

  • Crystal Caps

Timber & Orchard Trees

  • Oak

  • Chestnut

  • Applewood

  • Rowan

  • Willow

  • Cedar

Symbolic / Noble Flora

  • Knight’s Rose

  • Oathvine

  • Crown Lilies


MORROWIND — Ashland Biome

Staple Crops

  • Ash Yams

  • Saltrice

  • Hackle-Lo Leaf

  • Marshmerrow

Fungal Ecosystem

  • Giant Stalk Mushrooms

  • Bloatspore

  • Glowcaps

  • Wickwheat Fungus

  • Luminous Russula

  • Ashen Bracket Fungus

Alchemical / Toxic

  • Scathecraw

  • Fire Petal

  • Spore Pod Root

  • Ash Blossom

  • Corprus Spores

Sacred / Temple-Grown

  • Temple Ferns

  • Ancestor Spores

  • Ghostfence Mycelium


VALENWOOD — The Green

Primary Canopy Flora

  • Great Trees

  • Root Spiral Oaks

  • Canopy Fig Trees

  • Living Vines

Edible (Post-Hunt Only)

  • Green Sap Pods

  • Bonefruit Trees

  • Bark Honey Reeds

  • Nectar Vines

Weaponized / Defensive Flora

  • Strangleweed

  • Thornshade Bush

  • Bloodleaf Vines

  • Snaproot

Sacred / Metaphysical

  • Story-Blooms

  • Memory Moss

  • Whisper Leaves

  • Pact-Bound Reeds

Green Pact Constraints
No plant is killed. Use relies on shaping, ritual harvesting, fallen matter, or animal-supplied nutrients.


SUMMERSET ISLES — Arcane Gardens

Decorative / Cultivated

  • Star Palms

  • Prism Vines

  • Whiteglass Lilies

  • Ancestral Cypress

Magical Flora

  • Crystal Lotus

  • Spellbloom

  • Lightroot Ivy

  • Aetherial Orchid

Scholarly / Restricted

  • Mnemonic Ferns

  • Ley-Grass

  • Focus Lilies

  • Dawn-Era Seedlings

Sacred Groves

  • Genealogy Gardens

  • Ancestor Remembrance Trees


HAMMERFELL — Arid Survival

Desert Plants

  • Fire Cactus

  • Sunspike Aloe

  • Sand Lotus

  • Ironthorn Shrub

  • Salt Bulb Root

Coastal / Oasis Flora

  • Date Palms

  • Saltrush

  • Sea Fig

  • Coral Grass

Martial / Ritual

  • Swordgrass

  • Blood Myrrh Trees

  • Pyre Reeds


BLACK MARSH — Sentient Wetland

Primary Growth

  • Hist Trees

  • Scale-Reeds

  • Bog Gourds

  • Swamp Wheat

Carnivorous Plants

  • Blood Lily

  • Flesh-Vines

  • Snap Reeds

  • Marsh Drainers

Bioluminescent

  • Glow-Mycelium

  • Ghost Reeds

  • Lumen Moss

Alchemical Rarities

  • Hist Resin Pods

  • Sap-Bloom Flowers


ELSWEYR — Lunar-Aligned

Staples

  • Moon-Sugar Cane

  • Sugarleaf

  • Spinefruit Trees

  • Rain-Bloom Tubers

Sacred Plants

  • Lunar Blossoms

  • Jode’s Vine

  • Jone Reeds

Regulated / Dangerous

  • Dream-Eater Pods

  • Dusk Poppy

  • Moonshade Moss


CROSS-PROVINCIAL / MYTHIC

  • Nirnroot (standard, crimson, frost)

  • Void Salt Reeds

  • Oblivion Touched Brambles

  • Aether Spores

  • Memory Lichen


Summary

Flora is law, economy, weapon, and prayer. Empires fall by grain shortages. Gods communicate through trees. Rituals depend on petals grown under moons. To understand Tamriel is to understand what grows where—and who decides whether you may touch it.