In order to explore the contents of ginsenoside monomers between farmland ginseng and American ginseng,the contents of ginsenoside monomers were analyzed comparatively in farmland ginseng and American ginseng by RP- HPLC. The results indicated that one- year- old farmland ginseng contained nine kinds of ginsenoside like Rg1,Re,Rf,Rg2,Rb1,Rc,Rb2,Rb3,Rd,and Aamerican ginseng contained 7 kinds of ginsenoside such as Rg1,Re,Rb1,Rc,Rb2,Rb3,Rd.The contents of ginsenoside monomers in American ginseng were higher than that in farmland ginseng except for Rb2; the differences of 7 kinds of ginsenoside monomers were significant( p 0.05).The contents of ginsenoside monomers in farmland ginseng and American ginseng met the quality standards of Chinese Pharmacopoeia.