دراسة مسحية للنباتات البرية في بعض أقضية ونواحي محافظة كربلاء المقدسة

A survey study of wild Plants in some districts and subdistricts of the holy Karbala province

Summary
The current study dealt with a comprehensive survey of wild Plants in some districts and sub-districts Of Karbala governorate,which are the districts of Markas,Al-Hurr,Al-Husayniyyah,Al-Jaddol Al-Gharbi,Al-Hindiyah,and Al-Khairat district, The survey showed one type of fern,two types of angiosperms and several species of gymnosperm of dicotyledon and monocotyledon wild during the study period (2021-2022) has been found (347) species which relate to (223) genus and (63) families. the dicotyledone species (282) beloing to (51) families , the monocotyledon species (62) beloing to (10) families. All these have been scientifically classified with their local and common or Arabic names Besides their duration and economic importance (medical ,toxis, nutritional, forage, artificial, harmful , aromatic ,ornamental ,fuelplant or other uses.
More over , their geographical distribution the districts of Iraq and the study results statistics have shown that the vast majority of the collected species are horbal plants totalling (293)wild species out of (347) wild species . as for the shrub species it amounts to (37) wild species where as the number of woody species of tree is (12) as the number of parasitic species is (5). As for the economic plants and their significance ,lets mention the fact that the number of the medical plants are (257)species,the plants used as forage amount to (205),the plants used as fuel are (30) species ,the toxic plants fall into (28),the ornamental plants are (22) species ,the aromatic plants are of (12)species , the weed plants (6)species , it also study the floristic composition ,there are clearly dominating to graminae and compositae families of (46) species ,(44)species previosly .then the chenopodianaceae families with (36)species ,thent the papilionaceae family with (32) species so the dominating genus was AstragalusL., EuphorbiaL. ,TamarixL. with (8)species ,then ,launaeaCass ,plantagoL.,Suaeda J.F.Gmel each genus with(6) species , the plant communities was studied ,there are dominating to wild species as Tamarix L., Alhagi graecorum Boise, Juncus L.,Imperata Cirillo .