GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF FLORA OF MEDICINAL PLANTS OF KABARDINO-BALKARIA
The article presents the data of the geographical analysis of medicinal plants in the flora of Kabardino-Balkaria according to the concept of phytochorions using a system of geoelements developed for the flora of the Caucasus. As a result of the analysis the belonging of each species to a particular geoelement was determined, which made it possible to compile a geographical spectrum of the flora where the predominant position of Palaearctic, European and Euro-Siberian species was established.. The weak originality of the flora is revealed, in which there are no local endemics, and this category of species is represented only by conditional endemics. Eight tertiary relicts were identified.