Ornamental grasses breeding activity in the botanical garden of ural federal university

This paper described the importance of ornamental grasses in modern landscape design; the use of new non- traditional plant species and the need for new modern varieties in order to improve plant breeding under challenging climatic conditions in the region. Methods were tested and developed in the botanical garden of the Ural Federal University at different stages of plant breeding. It is an Anatomo-morphological method (test) of rapid selection of initial seed production according to the principle of correlation relationship between floral and vegetative traits. The main and typical features of future cultivar of wide-spread Leymus divaricatus (Drobow) Tzvelev are presented by an identity card of future cultivar.