Jean Lorougnon Guédé University (UJLoG) has a large site of about 400 hectares. The floristic diversity specially the richness of melliferous plants remain currently unknown. This is not helpful for modern beekeeping project on this area. This study was carried out to evaluate the potentially melliferous flora of this environment in order to promote beekeeping. Then, botanical surveys were carried out in all the university site and the resulting floristic list was compared to the three lists of known melliferous plants in Cote d’Ivoire. The results showed that 120 potentially melliferous species including 105 genera and 45 families were recorded. Euphorbiaceae and Fabaceae were the most diversified families. In addition, woody species (59%) were more abundant than herbaceous ones (41%). They are specially foraged for both nectar and pollen. As such, the flora of UJLoG site presents enormous melliferous potentialities that can support the practice of beekeeping. This flora needs an appropriate precaution.
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