diff --git a/sklearn/ensemble/_forest.py b/sklearn/ensemble/_forest.py
index 2dd600dc8f984..e7a0b8e56dde8 100644
--- a/sklearn/ensemble/_forest.py
+++ b/sklearn/ensemble/_forest.py
@@ -962,10 +962,11 @@ class RandomForestClassifier(ForestClassifier):
         <n_jobs>` for more details.
 
     random_state : int, RandomState instance or None, optional (default=None)
-        If int, random_state is the seed used by the random number generator;
-        If RandomState instance, random_state is the random number generator;
-        If None, the random number generator is the RandomState instance used
-        by `np.random`.
+        Controls both the randomness of the bootstrapping of the samples used
+        when building trees (if ``bootstrap=True``) and the sampling of the
+        features to consider when looking for the best split at each node
+        (if ``max_features < n_features``).
+        See :term:`Glossary <random_state>` for details.
 
     verbose : int, optional (default=0)
         Controls the verbosity when fitting and predicting.
@@ -1278,10 +1279,11 @@ class RandomForestRegressor(ForestRegressor):
         <n_jobs>` for more details.
 
     random_state : int, RandomState instance or None, optional (default=None)
-        If int, random_state is the seed used by the random number generator;
-        If RandomState instance, random_state is the random number generator;
-        If None, the random number generator is the RandomState instance used
-        by `np.random`.
+        Controls both the randomness of the bootstrapping of the samples used
+        when building trees (if ``bootstrap=True``) and the sampling of the
+        features to consider when looking for the best split at each node
+        (if ``max_features < n_features``).
+        See :term:`Glossary <random_state>` for details.
 
     verbose : int, optional (default=0)
         Controls the verbosity when fitting and predicting.
@@ -1540,7 +1542,7 @@ class ExtraTreesClassifier(ForestClassifier):
 
     bootstrap : boolean, optional (default=False)
         Whether bootstrap samples are used when building trees. If False, the
-        whole datset is used to build each tree.
+        whole dataset is used to build each tree.
 
     oob_score : bool, optional (default=False)
         Whether to use out-of-bag samples to estimate
@@ -1554,10 +1556,14 @@ class ExtraTreesClassifier(ForestClassifier):
         <n_jobs>` for more details.
 
     random_state : int, RandomState instance or None, optional (default=None)
-        If int, random_state is the seed used by the random number generator;
-        If RandomState instance, random_state is the random number generator;
-        If None, the random number generator is the RandomState instance used
-        by `np.random`.
+        Controls 3 sources of randomness:
+
+        - the bootstrapping of the samples used when building trees
+          (if ``bootstrap=True``)
+        - the sampling of the features to consider when looking for the best
+          split at each node (if ``max_features < n_features``)
+        - the draw of the splits for each of the `max_features`
+        See :term:`Glossary <random_state>` for details.
 
     verbose : int, optional (default=0)
         Controls the verbosity when fitting and predicting.
@@ -1845,7 +1851,7 @@ class ExtraTreesRegressor(ForestRegressor):
 
     bootstrap : boolean, optional (default=False)
         Whether bootstrap samples are used when building trees. If False, the
-        whole datset is used to build each tree.
+        whole dataset is used to build each tree.
 
     oob_score : bool, optional (default=False)
         Whether to use out-of-bag samples to estimate the R^2 on unseen data.
@@ -1858,10 +1864,14 @@ class ExtraTreesRegressor(ForestRegressor):
         <n_jobs>` for more details.
 
     random_state : int, RandomState instance or None, optional (default=None)
-        If int, random_state is the seed used by the random number generator;
-        If RandomState instance, random_state is the random number generator;
-        If None, the random number generator is the RandomState instance used
-        by `np.random`.
+        Controls 3 sources of randomness:
+
+        - the bootstrapping of the samples used when building trees
+          (if ``bootstrap=True``)
+        - the sampling of the features to consider when looking for the best
+          split at each node (if ``max_features < n_features``)
+        - the draw of the splits for each of the `max_features`
+        See :term:`Glossary <random_state>` for details.
 
     verbose : int, optional (default=0)
         Controls the verbosity when fitting and predicting.
@@ -2088,10 +2098,9 @@ class RandomTreesEmbedding(BaseForest):
         <n_jobs>` for more details.
 
     random_state : int, RandomState instance or None, optional (default=None)
-        If int, random_state is the seed used by the random number generator;
-        If RandomState instance, random_state is the random number generator;
-        If None, the random number generator is the RandomState instance used
-        by `np.random`.
+        Controls the generation of the random `y` used to fit the trees
+        and the draw of the splits for each feature at the trees' nodes.
+        See :term:`Glossary <random_state>` for details.
 
     verbose : int, optional (default=0)
         Controls the verbosity when fitting and predicting.