This study aims to do the survey and analysis of medicinal plant resources presented in the Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou City of Guangdong Province.Baiyun Mountain is in the subtropical climate zone, and has abundant vegetation types, with 876 kinds of plants. There are some kinds of state-protected rare and endangered plants: tulip tree, soil treatment incense, dalbergia dalbergia, keteleeria large yezhu bo and so on. Another 657 species of plants in the wild, many species have potential economic values, such as 343 kinds of medicinal plants, 86 timber species, and 97 wild ornamental plants. The green coverage of Baiyun Mountain has reached more than 95%.. This study is mainly conducted by using questionnaire survey and literature analysis to realize the perceptions and understanding of travelers on the role of medicinal plants used in landscape in the Baiyun Mountain; one hundreds questionnaires were sent and 100 valid questionnaires were returned, getting a response rate of 100%. The results show that the age of travelers between 21 and 30 provide the most improvement comments to the park, especially for classifying these planes according to flower colors, blossom seasons and leaf colors, and adding the placards. Obviously, most travelers have insufficient understandings about medicinal plants, particularly for the conserved medicinal plants in the Baiyun Mountain Scenic Area. 57% of them expresses they did not know the medicinal plants at all. An issue is worth considering about how to make more people know about medicinal plants.
