The purposes of this study were: Informing some Species of wild
plants at Debah site of Hama, and knowledge of its importance in
rural development in the region.
Our survey indicated for 2011-2012 that Debah site is a rich
region in plant biodive
rsity, Results revealed the presens of /145/
species, which belong to /89/ plant genus and /29/ different families.
Poaceae, Asteraceae and Fabaceae families are the most important
families in the study site. It was found that the region include
numbers of plant species that have different avails, and some
informions of plant avails were collected through knowledge of
local people and were comparised with scientific references , The
knowledge in biodiversity benefits of local people has effected by
many factors: age – experience– porerty .
The oldest people who has an experience know a lot about
biodiversity and their benefits and the starkest villages know more
than the poorest ones .