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.