The Botanical Garden of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences has conducted research of 450 species of medicinal and aromatic plants introduced into the subzone of southern taiga in the Middle Urals and distributed within the Ural region. Their adaptation to local environmental and cultivation conditions has been studied. An assessment has been made to perspective introduction and growing of the species.

In the conditions of the Middle Urals, the methods of cultivation of some species from the genus Echinacea L. Agastache Clayt et Gronov., Allium L., Potentilla L., have been developed to enrich the flora of the region with species of economic significance and to meet the local demands for medicinal vegetative raw materials.