Yasmine Alewi*⁽¹⁾,Kinan Abo jahjah⁽¹⁾, Morhef Abo Ein⁽¹⁾ and Waddah Alsayed⁽¹⁾    

(1).Second Faculty of Agriculture, Damascus University, Syria.

(*Corrsponding author: Yasmine Alewi. E-Mail: J.alewi@hotmail.com)

Received: 27/10/2020                                 Accepted: 23/03/2021

Abstract

We surveyed and classified wild plants that grow in Tal Shehan, Jabal Al Arab- Alswayda governorate in the period between Aughust 2019 and July 2020. Through periodical Field tours to collect samples of the growing plants, Classify them, determine the degree of their spread and determine the endangered species We have been Identified /30/ thirty plant species belong to several plant families: Apiaceae, Asteraceae, Boraginaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Chenopodiaceae,  Fabaceae, Iridaceae,  Lamiaceae, Papaveraceae, Poaceae, Polygonaceae and Scrophulariaceae.   On the other hand, no specimens of the plant species had mentioned previously to have spread in Tal Shihan by Mouterde (1983) were surveyed and these species are: Achillea fragrantissima, Allium drusorum, Androsace maxima, Antirrhinum orontium, Astragalus guttatus, Helianthemum ledifolium, Hypericum olieviri, Myosotis refracta, Paronychia Arabica, Prangos hermonis and Pterocephalus pulverulentus, Salvia palaestina. This indicates that these species have become extinct or threatened with extinction.

Keyword: Weeds, Tal Shihan, Alswayda, species plants.

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