The floristic structure of the Artvin-Soğanlı Village (Turkey) and the traditional usage of these plant taxa in this region

Artvin, which is famous for greenery land, has a very rich flora in terms of plant diversity and richness. It has Blacksea climate and place in place has the Mediterranean climate (especially near Coruh River). Soğanlı village is located in the province of Artvin-Ardanuç. This village distance from the city center is 35 km and it has 850 m altitude. In this study, The floristic structure of the Artvin-Soğanlı Village is researched. And also the medicinal and aromatical plant taxa and their traditional usage of this region were investigated. Plants have been used for different purposes such as food, medicine, pesticide etc. for a long time. Local floristic investigation and individuals knowladge about the traditional usage of plant taxa are vital important issue because if these knowladge would not be transferred generation to generation, local traditional usage of plant taxa will be disappered. As a result of the study 189 naturally plant taxa were identified and families, scientific names, usage parts, traditional usage of these plant taxa, which had have ethnobotanical importance, were indicated.