[Objective] This article aims to put forward a reasonable scheme on species configuration of artificial vegetation in rocky area

which is expected to be a technical support for restoring ecological systems and preventing water and soil loss.[Methods] According to the investigation on different grade vegetation in rocky desertification areas of Yanshan County of Yunnan Province

three types of species

which grow in the no rocky desertification

potential rocky desertification and mild desertification

are selected

and the community structure feature and their status in the community are analyzed.[Results] The dominant species in the different community are all recognized

such as Pistacia weinmannifolia and Quercus variabilis of arborous layer

Pyracantha fortuneana and Zanthoxylum simulans of shrub layer

Thatch of herb layer

Pueraria lobataof vine. They had an extremely important ecological and economic value.[Conclusion] According to the local condition

we proposed a reasonable species configuration scheme which combines the local dominant species of each layer and introduced species

such as Vitis amurensis by mixing mountain grass and shrub in the rocky desertification mountain.