The invention discloses a plant purification method for reducing SO2 concentration in air of an industrial area, which comprises the following process steps: planting one or a combination of oleanders, sycamores and weeping willows serving as roadside tree species at intervals of between 150 and 200 cm in plant areas and peripheral regions, performing lawn planting on Lucerne, gardenias, China roses in a hunk of space areas or planting the combination of the Lucerne, the gardenias, the China roses into a lawn, planting the oleanders, the sycamores and the weeping willows alternately for matching, and planting small trees among the plants sporadically; loosening and ploughing a ground substance at intervals of half a month during planting, appropriately introducing animals, such as earthworms and the like to loosen the ground substance, spraying and washing the dust on leaves of the planted plants, adding biological growth promoters into the plants or inoculating part of mycorrhiza organisms, watering fertilizers of leaf surfaces supplementarily, and harvesting the leaves shed naturally at any time. The plant purification method has the characteristics of no secondary pollution to environment and high absorption enrichment amount of the sulfur dioxide, soil and water loss prevention and control, environment beautification and the like.