The application status of vertical greening plants in Taiyuan residential area were analyzed by the method of representative residential typical investigation.The applicability evaluation system was built by the Analytic Hierarchy Process which was used to the applicability evaluation for the preliminary se-lected 378 species, among which 183 species plants(24 arbor species,55 shrub species,61 herb spe-cies,43 vine species)were suitable for the vertical greening in Taiyuan residential area.The results showed that the existing vertical greening in Taiyuan was insufficient on construction, monotonous on style,and limited on species of applied plants.The applicability evaluation system of of vertical greening plants in this paper was scientific,operable and representative,and the evaluation results of tree species were practical.
vertical greeningplant selectionapplicability evaluation systemanalytic hierarchy process(AHP)residential area in Taiyuan City