Flora



Flora refers to the various types of plants found throughout the wastelands.

Background
Due to radioactive fallout and latent exposure to weaponized and/or accidental mutagens, flora across the former United States of America have mutated rapidly. While mutated forms of plant life are prevalent, various "normal" plants and vegetables still exist, such as corn. Both mutated and non-mutated flora continue to to be used for nutrition, medicine, clothing and armor.

Behind the scenes
The director of Fallout: New Vegas, Joshua Sawyer, said regarding flora, "It's one of those things where the most implausible part of the setting is the fact that everybody's deciding to use the blasted, infertile wasteland of the desert as the place to rebuild society. You'd think the areas that aren't a horrible desert where people have to struggle just to get water would be the centers around which people would rebuild society.] Paiutes lived there before Europeans ever arrived and were able to survive. Many of the crops in F:NV were taken from this book. The fact that the Mojave wasn't irradiated and had relatively easy access to water via Lake Mead and the Colorado River made it better than many other areas in the American SW."