THE WILD EDIBLE AND MISCELLANEOUS USEFUL PLANTS IN YALOVA PROVINCE (NORTHWEST TURKEY)

Wild edible plants (39 taxa), miscellaneous useful plants (28 taxa) and methods of administration of 60 plant taxa belonging to 30 families in Yalova are documented in this study. Among these 56 species are wild and the rest four species are cultivated plants. The plant specimens were collected with informants. During the field works all the settlements (58 villages) were visited between August 2004 - June 2005. The information was recorded and the collected plants were identified and prepared voucher specimens were kept in the Herbarium of Istanbul University Faculty of Pharmacy (ISTE).