Plant Resources of Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park Central Nepal

In the present research, plants used for different purposes by the local inhabitants of Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park were recorded. They used plants belonging to 84 families, 174 genera and 212 species. These plant species were used for various purposes, for example, as in medicine (111 species), fodder (75 species), wild edible (66 species), timber and fuel wood (22 species), poisonous plants (25 species), socio-cultural (religious) plants (17 species), fibre yielding plant (14 species), ornamental (5 species), hedge (6 species), Nepali paper (3 species), tooth brush (2 species), thatching plants (2 species), broom making (2 species), walking stick (2 species), smoking (1 species), baskets (2 species), rodenticides (2 species), insecticides (2 species), incense (2 species), fermenting cake (1 species), beads (1 species). 92 plant species were reported to have higher use value than others.