Plants and trees
Made up of the plants and trees that create our amazing landscapes, the diverse habitats in the National Park support all of our incredible wildlife.
The Cairngorms has the UK’s largest remaining areas of semi-natural woodland, the most extensive area of boreal forest - the great belt of forest circling the globe from Siberia to Canada - and more than half of the surviving Caledonian forest.
The National Park is also home to some extremely rare plants and flowers, such as the twinflower, the one-flowered wintergreen and marsh saxifrage which only now exists in six known sites.
Alert
Relevant alerts
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The Met Office have issued an amber weather warning impacting some areas of the Cairngorms National Park today, with the potential for flooding and disruption.
For all of the latest on SEPA’s flood warnings, head to https://beta.sepa.scot/flooding/