Botanical research
The scientists of the SMNS Botany Department actively contribute to recent issues of biodiversity research in the fields of biogeography, taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, and floristics. They apply a combination of modern methods like DNA-analysis and classical like morphology.
The floristic mapping of Baden-Württemberg has along tradition at the Museum. Back in 1977, Siegmund Seybold, then curator at the Botany Department, published a grid mapping of the flora of the Württemberg part of the state. A first completion of the mapping of Baden-Württemberg as a whole was presented between 1990 and 1998 with the edition of “Die Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Baden-Württembergs” (Ferns and Flowering Plants of Baden-Württemberg). Since 2008, a complete new mapping is carried out. The recent distribution maps may be consulted at www.flora.naturkundemuseum-bw.de.