The Zagros Mountains forest steppe is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in Western Asia. The ecoregion extends along the Zagros Mountains, stretching from eastern Turkey and northern Iraq to southern Iran.

Oct 15, 2024 · They are located on the region’s borders with desert plants in Iraq and the Steppe plants can be classified into dry and wet steppe Plants (Fig. 5.3). In Iraq, they are divided: into the northern range, the wet steppes; there are plants in it in the form of a continuous vegetation cover, and the southern range, which is the least rainy and is ...

Oct 26, 2015 · The report suggests that, of the ecoregions of Iraq, the Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh, the Arabian Desert and East Saharo-Arabian xeric shrublands and the Zagros Mountains forest steppe are Critical/Endangered, whilst the Mesopotamian shrub desert and the Middle East steppe regions are Vulnerable.

Oct 15, 2024 · Some flowering plant genera, Echinops species, can be found in Iraq’s steppe regions. These plants are adapted to arid settings and feature spikey, globular flower heads. In the steppes, Echinops species offer nectar resources and are crucial for pollinators.

Oct 26, 2015 · Iraq is influenced by two major phytochoria, the Saharo-Sindian and the Irano-Turanian, which are subdivided into regional phytochoria specific to the Middle East region. Endemism is high in the...

Iraq for Dionysia bornmuelleri, a plant of damp cliffs. At the Gali Ali Beg waterfall, the plunge pool and the banks downstream are hardened with stone and cement.

Aug 5, 2014 · use of medicinal plants for the treatment of different illnesses, hence folk medicine is widely practiced by the people of the cities and the inhabitants of the remote areas or the nomads who generally inhabit the desert areas of the steppe and the uplands. Iraq is well known for the great variation in wild

Poa bulbosa and Artemisia campestris are rare in the desert plains while Cressa cretica and Lycium barbatum are absent from the true steppe grasslands. Salinity proved an important factor,...

Plants of the desert region in Iraq It is indeed difficult to limit true desert from the steppe as variation of rainfall at different years fades the line of demarcation of true desert from the steppe. A line starting from Badra on the cast near the Persian border, through Oizil Ribat, Tikrit, Haditha and through the south

During the recent soil surveys carried out in Iraq, a considerable amount of data has been amassed on soil densities and salinity. Notes were also kept on the vegetation cover and the horizons in which live roots were found.