The invention relates to a method for extracting total ribonucleic acid from plants with polysaccharide and polyphenol by using a silica membrane, and belongs to the field of nucleic acid purification. The method comprises the following steps of: adding a lysis solution for the plants with polysaccharide and polyphenol into a plant material with polysaccharide and polyphenol, which is ground by liquid nitrogen, performing centrifugal separation on the mixture, taking the supernate obtained through centrifugal separation out, transferring into a filtration column for filtration, adding absolute ethanol into filtrate, uniformly mixing, transferring into a silica membrane adsorbing column for adsorbing centrifugation, adding a protein removing solution and a deoxyribonuclease solution for protein removal centrifugation twice, adding a rinsing solution for desalting centrifugation, performing drying centrifugation, and adding deoxyribonuclease water for rinsing centrifugation to obtain a ribonucleic acid solution. The method has the characteristics of high efficiency, quickness and conciseness; and the purified ribonucleic acid (RNA) can be used for various downstream experiments suchas microarray analysis, in vitro translation, molecular cloning and the like.