By the way, the southeastern USA is considered a humid subtropical climate. Alabama and Tennessee and Georgia and the Carolinas and Tennessee and all that stuff, that’s considered to be subtropical instead of regular “temperate”
For some reason I did not know this. Maybe it just seemed too “exotic.”
The funniest part of gaining plant knowledge is realizing that regular people in the states I’ve been in think the place they live is just, boring and normal.
Like, NO! You live in a paradise of rare, exotic biodiversity! Kentucky has the world’s most extensive cave system full of rare cave animals evolved to live in a sunless underworld! Do you know where these grow wild?
NORTH CAROLINA
that’s the secret! every place on earth is interesting, unique, and beautiful in a way no other place is!
