Language: English with trilingual abstract in English, French and German
The Red List of the vascular plants of Luxembourg applies for the first time the revised IUCN Red List categories (IUCN 2001) at a national level. The checklist on which the Red List is based contains 1323 vascular plant taxa. Out of these, 7.6% are considered to be Regionally Extinct (RE), 9.2% Critically Endangered (CR), 9.4% Endangered (EN), 8.2% Vulnerable (VU) and 6.3% Extremely Rare (R). Overall 34.4% of the vascular plant taxa of Luxembourg are threatened or extinct.