Taxonomic Study of Wild Plants in The Great Zab Area, The Borders of Bakhma Dam (Miro), Kurdistan Region, Iraq

• Shaaban Karasul Abbas

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         The Identification and naming of plants has attracted a lot of attention throughout history. The science that investigates, identifies, describes, naming of the plant and classifies all plants. Plant taxonomy includes the description of the variation of plants, the observation  of the characters like morphological, anatomical and phylogenic characters of the plants, variation, comparison and the manipulation of the data obtained from the previous information/ data is useful to arrange plants in a system of classification.  Botanical survey has been conducted in this investigation in the Great Zab area, the borders of Bakhma dam (MRO) region, this survey includes many types of vascular wild plants, which are distribute on the mountain and adjacent area. Field survey duration was from beginning of spring season at March of 2025 to November of the same year. From the studied area Wild plants include 216 species were identified in 55 families and 170 genera. It seems that about 188 (87.03%) of the whole plants are herbs which comprise the majority of plants, trees about 6 (2.7%) species, the shrubs are 13 (6%), sub shrubs about 6(2.7%) species, and the ferns are the least number of 3 (1. 3%) species. All plant species were determined are new record according to surveyed area.

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