The Hun River, recognized as the mother river of Shenyang, a major city within the Liao River Basin, serves as a signifi cant ecological corridor along the city’s waterfront. To address issues such as the homogeneity of herbaceous plant communities along the Hun River in Shenyang, including poor ecological adaptability, low native biodiversity, and suboptimal winter landscape conditions, an empirical study on the construction of herbaceous plant communities in the urban riverbank zone was conducted. Based on the characteristics of natural herbaceous plant communities in similar habitats, through the design and refi nement of aspects such as community structure, phenology, and stem and leaf morphology, six groups of multi-layered, dynamic herbaceous plant community combination plots were formed. By continuously observing index data, such as plant number, plant height, color, community height, structure, and phenology, the dynamic evolution characteristics were quantitatively analyzed. The research found that the six groups of multi-layered, dynamic herbaceous plant communities constructed in the typical habitat of the Hun River riverbank zone in Shenyang all presented dynamic and stable characteristics. The diversity of native species increased signifi cantly. The annual phenological observation period could be extended to 9 months, and to a certain extent, low-maintenance management was achieved. The research provides new methods and paradigms for the construction of herbaceous plant communities in the riverbank zone of the Hun River in Shenyang, and provides new methods and paradigms for the construction of herbaceous plant communities in the riverbank zone of the Hun River in Shenyang, and lays the foundation for the research on the construction of plant communities in the urban riverbank zone of the Liao River Basin.