Lien Chiang County includes 10 large and small isles. The total area is 28.8 K㎡. It is surrounded by sea and is at sub-tropical oceanic climate area. Due to the invasion of wind and seawater, the slope there is stiff; the earth is thin with little rainfall that seriously influences the growth of plants and crops. It is humid with thick rain and fog in spring and summer, and drought is seen very often during fall and winter. Therefore, the plant ecology of Matsu is like those plants on coastal area of Fukien Province. Of which, the medicinal herbs with curing effects have blown along with strong northeast monsoon. To have better understanding for those distributed plants, it is necessary to investigate, classify and make statistics.
