Studies of Flora in Saral area: Kurdistan - Iran

Saral with 1000 square kilometers is located in Kurdistan province, north-west of Sanandaj city. The highest elevation of the Saral area is Sheykh-Bayan Mountain with 2895 meters and the lowest is Doueiseh village with 1600 meters height above see level. The final results of the studies on floras showed 536 plant species which belonged to 285 genera and 59 families. The largest plant families, in terms of number of species was Papilionaceae and Asteraceae with 66 species and the largest genus, in terms of species was Astragalus L. from Papilionaceae family with 30 species.The largest life forms in the Saral area belonged to Hemicryptophytes with %49 of all species and the other forms included: Therophytes 27%, Bulbous Geophytes 6%, Phanaerophytes 5%, Tuberous Geophytes, Rhizomatose Geophytes and Chamaephytes each 4%.