Abstract With the development of urbanization and
industrialization, soils have become increasingly polluted
by heavy metals. Phytoremediation, an emerging
cost-effective, nonintrusive, and aesthetically pleasing
technology that uses the remarkable ability of plants to
concentrate elements, can be potentially used to remediate
metal-contaminated sites. In this research, two
processes of phytoremediation (phytoextraction and
phytostabilization) were surveyed in some plant species
around an industrial town in the Hamedan Province in
the central-western part of Iran. To this purpose, shoots
and roots of the seven plant species and the associated
soil samples were collected and analyzed by measuring
Pb, Fe, Mn, Cu, and Zn concentrations using ICP-AES
and then calculating the biological absorption coefficient,
bioconcentration factor, and translocation factor
parameters for each element. The obtained results
showed that among the collected plants, Salsola soda
is the most effective species for phytoextraction and
phytostabilization and Cirsium arvense has the potential
for phytostabilization of the measured heavy metals.