Ethnobotanical investigation of natural plants used by the people in Altunhi̇sar (Niğde) and its surrounding settlements

In this study, it was aimed to examine the city center and villages of Altunhisar district of Niğde province in terms of ethnobotany. During the research process, 200 resource persons were interviewed. As a result of this study, 53 taxa belonging to 47 genera and 27 families were detected to use by the local people. The plants are mostly used as folk medicine (39 taxa), food (34 taxa), tea (11 taxa), goods and sweeper (3 taxa), fodder (3 taxa), spice (2 taxa), dye (1 taxa) and ornamental plants (1 taxa). The first families containing the maximum used taxa, respectively; Rosaceae 9 (% 19.98), Lamiaceae 6 (% 11.3), Asteraceae 5 (% 9.4) ve Brassicaceae, Polygonaceae 3 (% 5.6).