Abstract:This paper carried out a research on the species composition and distribution pattern of herb in Taiyuan urban ecological corridors, in order to investigate the plant diversity and landscape effects of urban ecological corridors. As results, a total of 174 species of herb, belonging to 20 genera and 41 families, were concerned in ecological corridors, including 107 species of indigenous plants, 48 species of alien plants and 19 species of invasive plants, accounting for 61.49%, 27.59% and 10.92%,respectively. The correlation analysis showed that the farther the survey site is from the city center, the higher the diversity of herb.Thus, urbanization decreases herb richness. In the investigation,the road ecological corridors always showed higher plant diversity than river ecological corridors. In addition, the invasive plants showed different distribution patterns in the two different ecological corridors. The ratio of invasive plants showed direct proportion to urban center distance in river ecological corridors, while showed inverse proportion in road ecological corridors.