The article contains information about the composition of urban floras in Almaty. It was revealed, that urban flora of Almaty is represented by 396 species belonging to 204 genera and 73 families. The basis of the urban flora of the city of Almaty is angiosperms (92,0%), gymnosperms are represented in the flora in 31 species (7,8%) and 1 species represented by ferns (0,25%). The class Liliopsida (monocotyledonous) is represented by 4 families or 5,4%. Class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledonous) is represented by 67 families or 91.7%. In the gardening of Almaty city, there are 54 species (25,3%) of trees and shrubs of the local (natural) flora of Kazakhstan (9 coniferous and 45 hardwoods) from 33 genera and 19 families. In the gardening of Almaty city 159 species (74,6%) of woody and shrub introducents are used, that is, plants grown in the soil outside the range of their natural distribution. Of these, 22 are coniferous and 137 hardwoods of 61 genera and 34 families.
The article provides a comparative analysis of the flora and endemism of the western and eastern part of the Ketpen-Temerlik range in Kazakhstan and China, which is the eastern tip of the Northern Tian Shan. The flora of the entire Ketpen-Temerlik range includes 1890 species of vascular plants belonging to 593 genera and 120 families. In the western part of the ridge (in Kazakhstan), 1747 species were identified, belonging to 585 genera and 111 families and in the eastern part (in China), 1673 species belonging to 577 genera and 117 families. Angiosperms make up 98.4% of the ridge flora, 80.0% of which are dicotyledonous and 18.5% are monocotyledonous. The analysis of the largest flora families of the entire Ketpen-Temerlik range allowed us to identify 28 of the largest families by the largest number of species. The families with the largest number of species are Asteraceae (308 species),
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