Alt Text Map of the prehistoric worldwide redwood distribution. All six inhabited continents are featured, silhouetted in black with an elegant band of celery green running across the middle. Extended Description The green band swoops across North America, covering most of what is now Canada and the United States and stopping north of Mexico. It sweeps across covering most of Greenland, and continues across Europe and Asia, stretching north of what is now Africa and India, stopping south of Scandinavia and the Russian tundra.