In the north of the Burgenland we mainly find oak-hornbeam woods, in the south oak-beech woods. It is also an ideal place for the Adriatic oak, the pubescent oak, the chestnut, the lime tree, the Tatarian maple, the cotoneaster and the Fendler bush to grow.
On the warm and dry sandy and rocky ground in the north we find the typical wood steppe fauna.
The salt steppe of the Seewinkel (Illmitz, Apetlon, Podersdorf) is almost desert-like. When the salt lakes dry out in summer, the ground appears white. The evaporation of the water is higher than precepitation. Only plants well-adapted to such extreme conditions can survive the hot summers: seep weed, fennel-leaved pondweed, sea rush, sheep´s fescue and comphor-fume.
