Flowers of Çoruh Valley

Authors

  • Ramazan Çakmakçı Department of Agronomy, Section Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Faculty of Agriculture, Atatürk University, 25240 Erzurum,
  • Rafet Aslanataş Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Osmangzi University, 26160
  • Yaşar Erdoğan Demirözü Vocational High School, Bayburt University, 69400 Bayburt
  • Ümmügülsüm Erdoğan Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Bayburt University, 69000

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24925/turjaf.v5i13.1785-1791.1688

Keywords:

Çoruh Valley, Biological diversity, Herbaceous flowering plants, Flowering and ornamental shrubs plants, Ornamental plants

Abstract

Coruh valley has an important biological diversity in term of plants, flora-fauna, wildlife and ecosystems. These regions contain the landraces, wild and weedy relatives, other wild, herbaceous and flowering trees, herbaceous flowering plants, medicinal and aromatic and flowering and ornamental shrubs plants species which are especially economically important plant for floriculture, eco-tourism, botanical tourism and nature tourism. Many important medicinal and aromatic and ornamental plants species are found in this region and naturally grow. It is considered that Acantholimon, Achillea, Alkanna, Allium, Amygdalus, Angelica, Anemone, Anthemis, Arabis, Arctium, Artemisia, Asparagus, Asperula, Astragalus, Calamintha, Calendula, Calutea, Campanula, Capparis, Cardamine, Centaurea, Cephalanthera, Cephalaria, Chelidonium, Chenopodium, Chysanthemum, Colchicum, Consolida, Coriandrum, Cornus, Coronilla, Cerasus, Cotoneaster, Crataegus, Crocus, Cyclamen, Dactylorhiza, Digitalis, Dianthus, Draba, Echinops, Equisetum, Ferula, Filipendula, Fritillaria, Fumaria, Gagea, Galanthus, Galium, Genista, Gentiana, Geranium, Geum, Gladiolus, Glychirrza, Helichrysum, Hesperis, Hypericum, İnula, İris, Isatis, Juniperus, Lilium, Linaria, Linum, lysimachia, Malus, Malva, Marrubium, Melissa, Mentha, Micromeria, Morina, Muscari, Mysotis, Narcissus, Neotchichatchewia, Nepeta, Onobrychis, Orchis, Ornithogalum, Origanum, Paeonia, Papaver, Pedicularis, Peganum, Phelypaea, Platanthera, Plantago, Pilosella, Pelargonium, Potentilla, Polygonum, Polygala, Primula, Punica, Prunus, Pyrus, Ranunculus, Rhamnus, Rhododendron, Rhus, Rosa, Rubia, Rubus, Rumex, Salvia, Sambucus, Satureja, Scilla, Scorzonera, Scutellaria, Sedum, Sempervivum, Sideritis, Sophora, Sorbus, Stachys, Tanecetum, Teucrium, Thymus, Trigonella, Tulipa, Tussilago, Uechtriitzia, Vaccinium, Verbascum, Verbena, Veronica, Viburnum and Ziziphora species commonly found in the region may be may be evaluated economically.

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Published

01.01.2018

How to Cite

Çakmakçı, R., Aslanataş, R., Erdoğan, Y., & Erdoğan, Ümmügülsüm. (2018). Flowers of Çoruh Valley. Turkish Journal of Agriculture - Food Science and Technology, 5(13), 1785–1791. https://doi.org/10.24925/turjaf.v5i13.1785-1791.1688

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Agriculture and Environment