It has been established that the fraction of aquatic and coastal aquatic plants of the spontaneous flora of the Donetsk Botanical Garden numbers 87 species, including the Black Sea endemic Persicaria hypanica (Klokov) Tzvelev and 2 species that are specially protected at the regional level (Carex diluta M. Bieb. and C. hartmanii Cajand.). According to habitat types, they are divided into free-floating (7 species), attached to underwater soil (16 species), growing in periodically drying shallow water (19 species), on wet (35) and moist (34) soils. aquatic and terrestrial forms of Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud., P. altissimus (Benth.) Mabille, Veronica anagallis-aquatica L. are represented. The number of apparently extinct species includes 24 % of the species that originally grew in this area.

Ostapko V.M., Prykhodko S.A., Mulenkova E.G., Gnatyuk N.Yu.