Astrid Scharfetter’s scientific contributions

Biodiversity Day – The vascular plants of the Botanical Garden Graz. – The “Biodiversity Day” held on June 11th, 2011, in the Botanical Garden Graz gave reason to summarize our knowledge of the biodiversity on these 2.8 hectares as a small series in the present volume of the “Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark”. The area of investigation is briefly characterized, followed by a table listing the 305 taxa of native and introduced (sub)spontaneous vascular plants recorded to date. Some of them are annotated and/or illustrated. The Botanical Garden plays a role as a habitat for rare and endangered species as well as for recently escaped ornamental plants.