The unique wild vegetation belt area surrounding the city is comparable to a natural herbal medicine bank.

More or less 20 meters wide vegetation belt is flourishing on the 10.8 kilometers long earth wall of Jingzhou ancient city. There are 250 hectares of original ecological vegetation and more than 300 kinds of precious species of plants in the area. It is comparable to a natural herbal medicine bank and a plant seed gene pool.Wild plants and ancient city walls are closely embraced in thousand years. They are praised to be much unique and rare in the world by the national landscape experts group.

More than 30 species of woody (arbor and shrubbery) plants and 267 kinds of herb and ivy vegetation in the natural herbal medicines bank.

There are about 300 species in the plant world of Jingzhou Ancient City, such as climbing fig, Chu pepper and other special plants; not only some medicinal plants such as Polygonum, Sanqi and other national endangered species date including octagonal lotus, wild soybean, Rhamnella forrestii and, peach, trough, chestnut, ginkgo and other wild fruit trees, but also other fruit plants like plum, peach, hedgehog, wild rose, wild pepper, paulownia, Huangjing , raspberry, bitter buckwheat,elder, morning glory, wild chrysanthemum, hibiscus and other wildflowers, leeks, dandelions, wild rhubarb, fragrant black raspberry, grape, Chinese trichosanthes, Mutong, climbing fig, etc can be found in the medicine bank here.