Landscape Plants of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Zihni Derin Campus (Rize-Turkey)

Abstract

A survey of gymnosperms and angiosperms used in landscape design in Zihni Derin Campus of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University was carried out between the years 2016-2017. The plants in the campus comprise 155 taxa belonging to 98 genera and 50 families. Within the angiosperms; Rosaceae has the highest number of taxa (13.9%). Primulaceae with 5.7% and Asparagaceae with 4.9% followed it, respectively. The others have a percentage of 75.5% of the landscape plant species belonging to angiosperms. If we look at the gymnosperms; Cupressaceae has the highest number of taxa (69.7%). Pinaceae with 27.3% followed it. The other and last family Cycadaceae has a percentage of 3% within the needle leaves. From the plants which consist of 155 taxa, 125 are in tree and shrub form, and the rest of them (30 taxa) are herbaceous.