Archaeophyte

As Archaeophytes ( gr ἀρχαῖος archaios " old " and φυτόν Phyton "plant" ) refers to hemerochore plant species which, when Christopher Columbus reached America before 1492, but even in the wider historical times, by direct or indirect human influence in a new area were introduced and propagated there independently without outside help ( established ) have. In contrast, refers to plants that have been introduced after 1492, when neophytes. Archaeophytes are not considered as native ( indigenous ), but are regarded as native in particular in conservation as opposed to neophytes.

The study of the spread of Archaeophytes operates the historic chorology.

Central European Archaeophytes almost all from the Mediterranean region and adjacent areas of West Asia originate, as they were with the beginning of agriculture and increasingly introduced in Central Europe since Roman times. To them, therefore, include many of us familiar plants such as cultivated apple, pear, plum, cereals such as wheat and barley, flowers and medicinal plants such as poppy, cornflower, chamomile and corn cockle. Many Archaeophytes available through the intensification or abandonment of farming today on the Red List of Threatened Species.

The introduction is one of the ways Ethelochorie that Speirochorie and Agochorie. They are all subtypes of Hemerochorie and presented in detail in this main article.