Animals and Plants


 * This article is written from an out-of-universe perspective.

Many different kinds of Animals and Plants are found across the Known World, in the three continents Westeros, Essos, and Sothoryos.

This article is a listing of those present within the TV series.

Animals

 * Basilisks
 * Direwolves
 * Dragons
 * Krakens
 * Lizard-lions
 * Mammoths
 * Manticores
 * Shadowcats

Plants

 * Weirwood trees
 * Ghost grass

Animals and Plants which are currently found on real-life Earth
Note: a few of these are significant enough within the story to merit their own article (such as "Horses"), but most do not. Sheep in Westeros are the same as sheep in real-life. This section is a cited list of different animals and plants specifically mentioned in dialogue in the TV series.

Animals

 * Beetles
 * Bears
 * Cats (domesticated)
 * Cattle
 * Chickens
 * Deer - large male deer are termed "stags", such as those in the heraldry of House Baratheon.
 * Dogs (domesticated)
 * Donkey
 * Frogs
 * Goats
 * Honey bees
 * Horses
 * Lamprey - eaten in Lamprey pie
 * Lions
 * Owls
 * Pigeon - eaten in Pigeon pie
 * Pigs
 * Ravens
 * Rabbits
 * Sheep
 * Stoat
 * Wolves

Plants

 * Apples
 * Barley
 * Cherries
 * Grapes - used to make various wine vintages.
 * Lemons - used in Lemon cake
 * Oats
 * Potatoes - see "In the books"
 * Roses
 * Rye
 * Wheat

In the books
New World Crops apparently don't exist in Westeros, because it is loosely based on the medieval British Isles (and Essos is based on Eurasia in general, and Sothoryos is loosely analogous to Africa). Tobacco specifically is not present in Westeros: instead people chew the leaves of a plant known as "sourleaf", which is much like chewing tobacco, but not quite the same as it stains teeth blood-red.

Potatoes are never mentioned in the books. The TV series, however, has casually mentioned potatoes several times.