Snowy Taiga

A snowy taiga or cold taiga is an icy biome that comprises a snow-covered forest of pine and spruce trees, ferns and large ferns, and sweet berry bushes, usually generating adjacent to or within snowy plains.

Snowy taiga biomes generate at the coldest temperature zones, in medium to high humidity. They commonly border snowy plains and are often separated from them by frozen rivers. In higher humidity, as well as in higher temperature zones, they are replaced by warmer taigas without snow.

Because snowy taigas generate in the frozen temperature zone, they border snowy beaches and frozen oceans, although stony shores can also generate. Near mountains, snowy taigas are widely replaced by groves, although they can still generate as narrow river valleys.