Plantains role in the composition of the Southern Urals grassy cover

The paper discusses the role and importance of various plantain species, found in the southern Urals in the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Orenburg Region. The paper contains description of the 7 species of plantain, their ecology, distribution, national economic significance, participation in various syntaxa extracted using eco-floristic approach of Brown-Blanke. Many of the species are plantains of taxonomic rank classes, orders, unions, associations: class SJ – Scorzonero-Juncetea gerardii, order SJg – Scorzonero-Juncetalia gerardii, union CH – Cirsio-Hordeion, TS class – Thero-Salicornietea, class FP-Festuco-Puccinellietea, order Fv – Festucetalia valesiacae, FB class – Festuco-Brometea, class M-A – Molinio-Arrhenantheretea. By origin they belong to different geographic elements: old Mediterranean meadow – Plantago cornuti Gouan; Pontian – Plantago maxima Juss. ex Jacq.; Euro-West Asian forest – Plantago media L.; Euro-West Asian forest-steppe – Plantago urvillei Opiz; Holarctic plyurizonalniy – Plantago major L. There is a species among the plantains that is found in the Red Book of the Republic of Bashkortostan – Plantago krascheninnikovii C.Serg. found in N.Yulbarisovo village of Khaybullinsky District (the Republic of Bashkortostan) near the Erangas river.