Uganda Vegetation

Fertile soils and tropical rains make most of Uganda a swathe of greenery with the exception of the far north where the semi-desert conditions encourage dry acacia woodland.

Vegetation is, or was, thicker in the south where much of the indigenous forest has made way for agriculture.

The central plateau is characterised by rolling grassy hills and the wooded savannah common to much of East Africa.

In the western highlands cultivated plots have replaced much of the lower-elevation rainforest but dense forest still covers the medium-level elevations.

At higher altitudes bamboo forest gives way to Afro-alpine moorland, an area famous for gigantism among species such as groundsel, heather and lobelias.

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