can you removal Our results demonstrate that common herbaceous and leguminous plants can be used as alternative and simple analytical tools that can be employed to monitor environmental pollution and in particular soil pollution by heavy metals. Other physicochemical parameters such as soil pH, temperature, humidity, soil texture analysis, microbiological composition and soil redox potential, to cite only a few, have to be considered in order to deeply study the metal accumulation mechanisms by plants and employ them as efficient indicators of environmental pollution. Moreover, increasing the number of vegetal species it will be possible to find better indicators for different heavy metals, and suggest a panel of common plants to employ routinely in analytical determinations for environmental pollution monitoring.