Abstract: The heavy metal is one of the pollutants which most seriously polluted our environment in our country. It has a serious harm not only on the ecological environment, but also to human body through the food chain enrichment. Around the damages of heavy metals on plant cells, the paper reviewed the research progress of the absorption of heavy metals, and the distribution of heavy metals in plants, and the effect of heavy metals on various important organelles in plant, namely cells ultrastructure; and summarized the characteristics of heavy metal damage on plant cells.