ABSTRACT
Urban ethnobotany focuses on the study of local botanical knowledge (LBK), and researching the complex relationships between people and their plant environment in urban pluricultural contexts. The LBK is a set of knowledge and beliefs about the plant environment—vegetation, plants, their parts, and their derivative products, which guides various strategies of action, such as obtaining ways, selection, production, uses, processing, and consumption. In the urban areas, the LBK includes components that are linked to a traditional knowledge (family traditions, immigrant groups) as well as non-traditional knowledge (divulged, teaching, also scientific knowledge). This contribution aims to discuss theoretical aspects and methodological tools used to evaluate the LBK associated with Bolivian and Chinese immigrants in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. This research takes place through an ethnobotanical study and survey of species, their plant products, the local assigned uses, and their main medicinal properties, which are scientifically evaluated.
