Resources investigation of medicinal plants of Huangfu mountain in city of Chuzhou based on grid sampling method / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To conduct preliminary investigation to the species and reserves of medicinal plants in Huangfu Mountain, and to provide references to the general survey of those plants for medicine.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Combined with global positioning system (GPS), the program of investigation with grid sampling was used in this resource survey of medicinal plants.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>After the preliminary investigation of the plants for medical use of Huangfu Mountain, it is found that there are 103 families with 313 kinds of plants. There are many medicinal plants and large distribution, such as Pseudostellaria heterophylla, Semiaguilegia adoxoides and Pinellia ternate.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Huangfu Mount, with so many different kinds of medicinal plants and comfortable environment for part of the medicinal plants to grow, could be developed as a base for planting Chinese herbal medicines.</p>