摘要Ethnobotanical study of plants revealed that the local community of Ghalegy, District Swat, invariably uses 126species of 59 families for various purposes. Based on their traditional local uses, fifty-seven species (45.2%) were classified as medicinal, forty-seven as fire wood (37.3%), forty-five as forage (35.7%), twenty-eight as honey bee species (22.2%), twenty-seven as vegetable species (21.4%), 25 as edible fruits ( 14 wild and 11cultivated), thirteen as timberwood (10.3%), twelve as ornamental (9.5%), eleven as furniture wood, ten as shelter and thatch makers (7.9%), ten as fencing (7.9%), five as poisonous (4%), four as religious/superstitious species, three species used in making hand sticks and wooden tools (2.4%), three as utensil cleaner species (2.4%), three as evil repellent and one as fish poisoning species. The area is in plant resources and traditional knowledge but it needs ecological management for its sustainability.