This series of books is a translation of Flora Evropeiskoi Chasti SSR, which provides information on the wild and most important cultivated plants growing in the European portion of Russia and its bordering regions. The text describes plant systematics, habitat conditions, range, and chromosome numbers. The series serves as a manual for botanists, agronomists, teachers, students and naturalists. Volume 5 includes descriptions of 608 species from 133 genera and 23 families belonging to the orders Salicales, Erocales, Diapensiales, Ebenales, Primulares (, Polemoniales, and Scrophulariales.