Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• H. Bagheri ¹
• S.M. Adnani ¹
• H. Bashari ²

¹ Academic members of Qom Agricultural and Natural Resources Research center

² Ph.D. Student of Tehran University

Abstract

The abundant usage from medicinal and aromatic plants shows the place and role of these valuable resources in the world. At first, we should collect and identify all of the medicinal and aromatic plants in our region. The Qom province has different condition in climatic, topography and pedology and so it has a different species of medicinal and aromatic plants. At first Qom floristic list was prepared and after a literature review the aromatic plants were identified. After this stage, some of studding site were considered and then data was recorded because of consideration to phonological condition of aromatic plants. Then ecological parameters were measured. The result showed that 39 species of about 230 medicinal plants were categorized as aromatic plants. These plants belonged to 5 families and 20 genus. 28 species were in semi-stepp region, 4 species were in stepp region and 7 species were common in both semi- stepp and stepp regions. The Labiatae had most frequency species (22) and other families are composite 12, Umbelliferea 3, Verbenaceae 1, Ephedraceae 1 species.

Keywords

• Aromatic plants
• collection and identification
• ecological parameters
• Qom