Dissymmetry at the Border: Wild Food and Medicinal Ethnobotany of Slovenes and Friulians in NE Italy. Cross-cultural and cross-border research represents a valuable tool for addressing traditional plant knowledge variability and change. An ethnobotanical field study was carried out during late spring 2018 within two culturally and linguistically distinct communities (Friulian and Slovenian speakers) in Friuli Venezia Giulia, NE Italy. Data were gathered via semi-structured interviews with 32 local inhabitants regarding the use of wild and semi-domesticated food and medicinal plants. We recorded 108 botanical taxa, of which 79 were common to both communities. Despite a common ecological landscape and an overlap in the overall used taxa, some differences were recorded for the most commonly utilized taxa. This indicates that the culture and language of minorities may have played an important role in preserving biocultural identity and customs. Our study shows how dissymmetry was shaped by the different distances of the two groups to the dominant standard Italian mainstream over the last few centuries and how cultural identity is actually constructed in relation to a dominant cultural code. Future studies should address the strategies of biocultural adaptation and resilience in multiethnic and multilingual crossroad regions.

边境地区的不对称现象：意大利东北部的斯洛文尼亚人和弗留利人野生食品和药用民族植物。跨文化和跨境研究是解决传统植物知识变异和变化的宝贵工具。2018年春末，在意大利东北部的弗留利·威尼斯·朱利亚（Friuli Venezia Giulia）的两个文化和语言截然不同的社区（讲法语和斯洛文尼亚语的人群）中进行了一项民族植物学现场研究。通过对32位当地居民进行的半结构化访谈收集了有关野生和半驯化的食物以及药用植物的使用的数据。我们记录了108个植物分类群，其中79个是两个社区共有的。尽管有共同的生态景观和整个使用的分类单元重叠，但仍记录了最常用的分类单元的一些差异。这表明少数民族的文化和语言可能在维护生物文化特征和习俗中发挥了重要作用。我们的研究表明，在过去的几个世纪中，这两个群体与占主导地位的标准意大利主流群体之间的距离不同，是如何造成不对称的，以及与占统治地位的文化规范相关的文化身份实际上是如何构建的。未来的研究应解决多民族和多语言十字路口地区的生物文化适应和复原力战略。