Botanists active in North America

Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland ( August 22, 1773 - May 4, 1858) was a French explorer and botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aimé Bonpland"

André Michaux ( 8 March, 1746 – probably 11 October, 1803) was a French botanist and explorer. ...more on Wikipedia about "André Michaux"

Archibald Menzies ( March 15, 1754 – February 15, 1842) was a Scottish physician and naturalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archibald Menzies"

August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard ( 1786- 1839) was a German botanist, who worked at Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was among the first botanists to describe the new plants then being discovered in Alaska (under Russian ownership at the time), including species now of major commercial importance like Sitka Spruce and Red Alder. The specimens he described were mostly collected by Carl Mertens at Sitka, Alaska. ...more on Wikipedia about "August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard"

Charles Christopher Parry ( 28 August 1823 – 20 February 1890) was a British- American botanist and mountaineer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Christopher Parry"

Charles Frederick Newcombe ( September 15 1851 - October 19 1924) was a British botanist and ethnographic researcher. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles F. Newcombe"

Charles Plumier ( April 20, 1646- November 20, 1704) was a French botanist, after whom the genus Plumeria (originally named Plumiera) is named. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Plumier"

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Charles Sprague Sargent ( April 21 1841- March 22 1927) was an American botanist. He was the first director of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, and the standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he described. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Sprague Sargent"

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz ( October 22 1783- September 18 1840) was a nineteenth-century polymath who led a chaotic life. ...more on Wikipedia about "Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz"

David Douglas ( December 30, 1799 – 1834) was a Scottish botanist. The son of a stonemason, he was born in the village of Scone north-west of Perth. He attended Kinnoul School and upon leaving he found work as an apprentice gardener in the estate of the 3rd Earl of Mansfield at Scone Palace. He spent seven years at this position before leaving to attend college in Perth to learn more of the scientific and mathmatical aspects of plant culture. After a further spell of working in Fife (during which time he had access to a library of botanical and zoological books) he moved to the Botanical Gardens of Glasgow and attended botany lectures at the University of Glasgow. The Professor of Botany was greatly impressed with him and took him on an expedition to the Highlands before recommending him to the Royal Horticultural Society of London. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Douglas"

Diederich von Schlechtendal ( 27 November 1794 - 12 October 1866) was a German botanist. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal"

Donald Culross Peattie ( June 21, 1898 - November 16, 1964) was a US botanist, naturalist and author. The standard botanical author abbreviation Peattie is applied to species he described. ...more on Wikipedia about "Donald C. Peattie"

Edward Palmer ( 1829 - 1911) was a self-taught British botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Palmer (botanist)"

Edward Tuckerman ( December 7, 1817 - March 15, 1886) was a botanist and professor from Boston, Massachusetts who made significant contributions to the study of lichens and other alpine plants. The majority of his collecting was done on the slopes of Mount Washington in the White Mountains. Tuckerman Ravine was named in his honor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Tuckerman"

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Edward Wilber Berry ( 1875 - 1945) was an American paleontologist and botanist, the principal focus of his research was paleobotany. Berry studied North and South American flora and published taxonomic studies with theoretical reconstructions of paleoecology and phytogeography. He started his scientific career as an amateur scientist. At Johns Hopkins University he held various positions including teacher, research scientist, scientific editor and administrator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward W. Berry"

Francis Masson (August 1741 – 23 December 1805) was a Scottish botanist and gardener, and Kew Gardens’ first plant hunter. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis Masson"

Frederick Traugott Pursh ( 1774 - 11 July 1820) was a German- American botanist. Born in Grossenhain, Saxony, he was educated at Dresden Botanical Gardens, and emigrated to the United States in 1799. By 1805, he was working for Benjamin Smith Barton on a new flora of North America, under who he studied the plants collected on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frederick Traugott Pursh"

George Engelmann (also known as Georg Engelmann) was a German- American botanist. He was born on 2 February 1809 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and died on 4 February 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was instrumental in describing the flora of the west of North America, then very poorly-known; he was particularly active in the Rocky Mountains and northern Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Engelmann"

George Gordon ( 1806- 1879) was a British botanist. He worked for the London Horticultural Society as Foreman of the Horticultoral Society Gardens at Chiswick, near London. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Gordon (botanist)"

Howard Scott Gentry ( 1903- 1993) was an American botanist recognized as the world's leading authority on the agaves. ...more on Wikipedia about "Howard Scott Gentry"

Jean-Baptiste Labat (sometimes called, simply, Père Labat) ( 1663- 1738), French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner. Born in Paris, he entered the order of the Dominicans at the age of twenty. He was ordained at the completion of his philosophical and theological studies. Besides preaching, he taught philosophy and mathematics to secular students at Nancy. Abandoning this work, he devoted himself to missionary activity and for many years preached in the various churches of France. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jean-Baptiste Labat"

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Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz ( 1 November 1793 - 19 May 1831) was an Estonian physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. Eschscholtz was a Baltic German. ...more on Wikipedia about "Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz"

John Bartram (b. March 23, 1699, in Darby, Pennsylvania. d. September 22, 1777) was an American botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Bartram"

John Kunkel Small ( 1869- 1938) was an American botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Kunkel Small"

John Macoun ( 17 April, 1831 – 18 June, 1920) was an Irish-born Canadian naturalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Macoun" The text you are reading is from http://www.shortopedia.com

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