What types of flora would flourish on a tidally-locked moon?
My world is a satellite of a gas giant. It has an atmosphere and is mostly covered by water (the percentage of water to its surface is somewhere in the high 80s-low 90s). Its rotation period is 28 days resulting in roughly 14 days of sunlight followed by 14 days of night (dawn and dusk included).
This would mean that there are some strong temperature variations between the halves of the planet, as well as between day and night on the same side. This is somewhat mitigated by the large amount of oceans present and the fact that the gas giant acts as a stabilizer, exuding heat when hit by sunlight during the world's night when the gas giant is full in the sky, and vice versa during the day. These temperature variations would give rise to strong winds. Hopefully not strong enough that a classical antiquity civilization couldn't survive there though.
What types of plants would be most prevalent in such an environment of strong winds and large swings in temperature year round?
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