background and objectives: many people in ethnic groups of the world have trusted in plants for disease management and cure. medicinal plants have always played a great role in the lives of iranian people in the past and present and with no doubt in the future. healers in different regions of iran have been using medicinal herbs and one rich source for these cures is located in south-west of ir...

Data on the morphology of fruits and seeds is important in plant identification, especially for botanical gardens, which receive a significant part planting material form seeds. We studied 18 seed samples 7 feather grass species listed Red Book Nizhny Novgorod region, obtained from various gardens: Stipa capillata L. (5 samples), S. dasyphylla (Lindem.) Trautv. (2 lessingiana Trin. et Rupr. (3 ...