FLORISTIC DIVERSITY OF SANTH SAROOLA, KOTLI SATTIAN, RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN

Abstract

The objective of present study was to record the existing flora of Santh Saroola, Kotli Sattian, Pakistan. For this purpose, field surveys were conducted in August 2009 to July, 2010. A total of 186 plants species belonging to 148 genera and 63 families were identified. The largest number of species was contributed by Poaceae (24 spp., 12.90%), followed by Asteraceae with 20 species (10.75%), Fabaceae (16 spp., 8.60%), Euphorbiaceae (8 spp., 4.30%), Lamiaceae & Solanaceae (7 spp., 3.76% each) and Brassicaceae (6 spp., 3.23%); while rest of 56 families possessed species with the range of 1-5. With reference to life forms, Therophytes were found very frequent in terms of flora (45.99%), followed by Phanerophytes (29.95%), Hemicryptophytes (18.18%), Chaemophytes (4.81%) and Cryptophytes (1.07%). Most of the plants present in this area were herbaceous (89) natured, follow by shrub (38), grasses (24), trees (17) and climbers (11).