Features of the use by Karelians and Russians of plants of local flora as medicinal and food
AUTHORS : Lebedeva T.P. | Tkachenko K.G.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Botanical Institute named after V.L. Komarov RAS, St. Petersburg
YEAR : 2016
SUMMARY Ethnobotanical research conducted over the past 20 years in a limited area of the Northwestern Federal District of the European part of Russia among Karelians living compactly in the Leningrad Region and Russians living with them, made it possible to note differences in
the use of the same plant species as useful local flora. It was revealed that one people living in
different administrative regions uses a different number of plants as food and medicinal in folk
medicine.
