Nastoyashchaya kniga yavlyaetsya rezul"tatom izucheniya vysokogornoy flory i rastitel"nosti Nakhchyvanskoy Avtonomnoy Respubliki Azerbaydzhana. Provedennogo putem marshrutnogo geobotanicheskogo obsledovaniya subal"piyskikh, al"piyskikh lugov i al"piyskie kovry raspolozheny 1800-3006 m nad urovnem morya. Na osnove sobrannykh ogromnykh faktiches-kikh materialov Sozdan «Gerbarnyy fond», sostavlen polnyy spisok, taksonomicheskiy spektr rasteniy flory vysokogoriy, vklyuchayushchiy 1326 vidov, otnosyashchikhsya k 477 rodam i 110 semeystvam. Provedeno vsestoronniy analiz flory vysokogoriy regiona. Privoditsya svedenie o narodnokhozyaystvennoe znachenie i resursy poleznykh rasteniy (lekarstvennykh, efirnomaslichnykh, kosmeticheskikh, pishchevykh i dr.). Oni yavlyayutsya nezamenimym istochnikom polucheniya syr"ya dlya kozhevennoy, parfyumernoy, meditsinskoy, pishchevoy, khimiko-farmatsevticheskoy, krasil"noy promyshlennosti. Ukazyvayutsya prak-ticheskoe meropriyatie po vosstanovleniyu, uluchsheniyu, ratsional"nomu ispol"zovaniyu i okhrane redkikh, ischezayushchikh rasteniy. Kniga prednaznachena dlya floristov, geobotanikov, ekologov, resursovedov, dissertantov, studentov biologicheskikh fakul"tetov vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniy i spetsialistov interesuyushchikhsya bogatoy floroy etogo kraya.