USEFUL PLANTS OF THE FAMILY <i>ERICACEAE</i> IN THE IRKUTSK DISTRICT OF THE IRKUTSK REGION
Objects of research are useful plants of the family Ericaceae growing in the Irkutsk district of the Irkutsk region. The basis of the synopsis and analysis formed the collected herbarium and literature sources. For the identification of plants to the groups of economic use were used literature data, questionnaire data and personal studies. When assessing resources, with all the studied plants, they were divided into classes depending on their degree distribution. The district identified 20 species of useful plants of the family Ericaceae, which includes 12 genera. Medicinal plants - 20, decorative - 15, aft - 15, honey - 7, food - 17 of them: vitamin - 6, tea - 11 used in the production of alcoholic beverages and winemaking - 6, Beers - 1, poison - 5, technical - 9, including: dye - 4, tannin - 6 in cosmetology - 8 species. In relation to soil moisture: mesophytae - 10, xeromesophyte - 2, mesohygrophytes - 3, hygrophytes - 5 types. Relative to soil fertility 8 kindsmesotrophy, 12 - oligotrophs to light: 11 types - light, 9 - shade-tolerant plants. Half of the described species of this family occurring in the area investigated shrubs, perennial - 7, shrubs - 3. Sufficient resources for conducting the blanks (P1-P2) have 10 species: Ledum palustre, Pyrola asarifolia, Pyrola rotundifolia, Rhododendron dauricum, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium uliginosum, Andromeda polifolia, Orthilia secunda, Oxycoccus palustris. Seven species of plants spread out over the premises, not forming large arrays, and 4 species found only as single specimens.