Ecological characteristics Dracocephalum kotschyi Boiss. In Bojnord range lands
2011
Asaadi, A. M., Instructor, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resource of Shirvan, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran | Khoshnood Yazdi, A., Instructor, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resource of Shirvan, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Dracocephalum kotschyi is one of the medicinal and aromatic plant that find in natural site of mountainous and high lands. This plant incase has a lot essence is attend. In traditional medicine, this plant use for fever reduction, joints pain, rheumatism, inflammation against and sore recovery. Present study was carried out to know of ecological characteristic of this species for introduce and dense cultivation of this plant on farm land and then use in medical industries. Such as this plant natural sites were controlled of destroying. This study was carried out in range land of Bojnourd in 2008. In the site, the studies were climatically characteristic, geology, stand type, codominant plant and vegetable variation, physical and chemical analyses of the soil. Results showed that Dracocephalum kotschyi could be adapted for regions with semiarid- cold climate, annual rainfall average of 320 mm and annual temperature average of 10.22 c. Dracocephalum kotschyi have dispersed in northern and north- west slope and altitude 1600- 1800 m of sea level in rocky area. The soils physical and chemical analyses showed that the soil is very shallow with loomy texture, pH= 7.57- 7.6, Ec= .555 ds/m, CEC= 11.14- 11.9 Cmol/kg. The stand type was Stachys inflata- Festuca ovina and the codominant plants were over 58 species. Average of canopy covers and density were 0.122%, 361 shrubs in hectare respectively.
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