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The flora of Armenia is very diverse since it is situated on the joint of two geobotanical provinces – Caucasian and Iranian. The prevailing are semidesert, mountain-steppe, mountain-meadow and Alpine vegetation.
Grassland -cereal and stipa steppes are replaced by meadow steppes and the Alpine meadows in high-mountains. The woods occupy about 12 % of the area of the country and are, basically, in the northeast and southeast. Widespread in the northeast are broad-leaved woods with the prevalence of oaks, beeches and hornbeams with some lindens, maples, and ash-trees.
Poplars and walnuts, wild fruit-trees and bushes (apple-trees, pear, cherry, plum, cornelian cherry, and dog rose) are often found there too. The rocky and stony soils are grown with bushes – almond and pistachios, Jerusalem thorn, and beans. Armenian flora totals about 3,200 species including 106 endemics.
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