Water vegetation and flora of Kyiv Dnieper floodplane

Parnikoza I.Yu.

Aquatic vegetation is represented on the bed of the Dnieper River, the island arm of the Desna River and the waters of numerous old lakes on the territory of the islands and the left bank. Modern aquatic vegetation was formed on the ruins of the former tropical-exotic diversity destroyed by climatic cataclysms of the Pleistocene. Due to the fact that it has preserved a number of ancient archaic species of plants.