Abstract
Medicinal plant species comprise 21% of the Slovakian native flora. Thirteen species, we focused on, grew at a control site (botanical garden) and three natural sites with different ecological conditions. We described effects of irradiance and soil organic matter content on leaf functional traits, such are specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content. For the formation of plant functional groups according to different leaf characteristics, the metric multidimensional scaling (MDS) ordination diagram was applied. Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) had a more significant effect on studied leaf traits than content of soil organic matter (SOM). Moreover, we studied plasticity of these leaf functional traits and formed plant functional groups based on them. Urtica dioica and Geum urbanum possessed the greatest plasticity of all studied species.
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