• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.537-554
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• 2006

This study aims to investigate the distribution of the useful economic plants and the flora of Maninsan. The flora of Maninsan was investigated from March to November in 2003. Vascular plants of this area consist of total 450 taxa; 5 forma, 53 varieties, 392 species, 279 genera, 95 families. It corresponds to 11.1% of totally 4,071 taxa appeared in Korea. Useful plants of this area were investigated 373 taxa. It corresponds to 82.7% of collected plants in this area under our study. Among the useful plants, there are 191 taxa of edible source, 181 taxa of pasture source, 153 taxa of medicinal source, 54 taxa of ornamental source, 18 taxa of timber. Korean endemic plants were composed 10 families, 13 genera, 9 species, 4 varieties and totaling 13 taxa.