Flora Of Georgia (U.S. State)
The natural history of Georgia covers many plant and animal species. The humid subtropical climate of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia influences its plant and animal life. Flora The state of Georgia has approximately 250 tree species and 58 protected plants. Georgia's native trees include Juniperus virginiana, red cedar, a variety of pine tree, pines, oak tree, oaks, maple tree, maples, Arecaceae, palms, Liriodendron, sweetgum, scaly-bark and white hickory, hickories, as well as many others. Gelsemium sempervirens, Yellow jasmine, flowering quince, and Kalmia latifolia, mountain laurel make up just a few of the flowering shrubs in the state.Georgia – Flora and fauna – city-data.com
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Tree species

Georgia's approximately 250 tree species include r ...
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Plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll. Exceptions are parasitic plants that have lost the genes for chlorophyll and photosynthesis, and obtain their energy from other plants or fungi. Most plants are multicellular organism, multicellular, except for some green algae. Historically, as in Aristotle's biology, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi. Definitions have narrowed since then; current definitions exclude fungi and some of the algae. By the definition used in this article, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (green plants), which consists of the green algae and the embryophytes or land plants (hornworts, liverworts ...
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