Medicinal plants of Kurdistan province

With regard to importance of medicinal plants, this study has carried out in Kurdistan province in 1998-2001 for identification of medicinal plants of this province. There were various stages contained collection of rural and locale information about medicinal plants, field and in situ investigations and collection of herbal samples and identification of them. According to results, 144 medicinal plants species were identified that 59 species of them were new in comparison with previous references. The most numbers of medicinal plants were belong to the families of Compositae, Umbelliferae, Papilionaceae, Rosaceae, Labiatae, Cruciferae, Solanaceae, Ranunculaceae, Alliaceae, Malvaceae, Liliacea with 18, 16, 11, 10, 8, 6, 4, 4, 3, 3 and 3 species, respectively. In addition Anacardiaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Chenopodiacea, Linaceae, Orchidaceae, Tamaricaceae, Polygonaceae, Moraceae, and Papaveraceae families allocated 2 species and the other families included one species.