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American women botanists

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Barbara McClintock
American scientist and cytogeneticist
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton
American botanist (1858-1934)
Ruth Patrick
American botanist and limnologist (1907–2013)
Jane Colden
American botanist (1724-1766)
Alice Eastwood
Canadian American botanist (1859-1953)
Mary Agnes Chase
U.S. botanist, botanical collector and scientific illustrator (1869–1963)
Isabella Abbott
Hawaiian-American professor of botany, ethnobotanist and specialist in algology (1919-2010)
Mary Engle Pennington
American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (1872-1952)
Mary Katharine Brandegee
American botanist (1844-1920)
Katherine Esau
German-American botanist (1898-1997)
Annie Morrill Smith
American botanist (1856-1946)
Edith Schwartz Clements
U.S. botanist and botanical illustrator (1874–1971)
Robin Wall Kimmerer
American environmentalist
Frances Theodora Dana
American botanist, naturalist and writer (1861 – 1952)
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
American educator, botanist, author (1793-1884)
Clara H. Hasse
American botanist (1880-1926)
Mary Treat
American biologist, botanist and entomologist (1830-1923)
Ynes Mexia
Mexican-American botanist (1870–1938)
Margaret Clay Ferguson
American botanist and botanical collector (1863-1951)
Ruth Lyttle Satter
American botanist, physiologist and mathematician (1923-1989)
Harriet Creighton
American geneticist (1909-2004)
Eliza Frances Andrews
American writer, botanist, and teacher (1840-1931)
Clara Eaton Cummings
American cryptogamic botanist and university teacher (1855-1906)
Anna Murray Vail
American botanist, botanical collector, librarian and editor (1863-1955)
Katherine Olivia Sessions
American botanist and landscape architect (1857-1940)
Mary-Dell Chilton
American biologist (born 1939)
Adeline Sarah Ames
American mycologist (1879-1976)
Mary Strong Clemens
American botanist (1873-1968)
Doris Mable Cochran
American herpetologist (1898-1968)
Elzada Clover
American botanist (1897-1980)
Mary Vaux Walcott
American artist, photographer, botanist and naturalist (1860-1940)
Emma Lucy Braun
American botanist and first woman to be elected President of the Ecological Society of America, in 1950 (1889–1971)
Florence Hedges
American botanist (1878-1956)
Alice Lounsberry
American botanist, dendrologist and author (1872-1949)
Lily May Perry
Canadian-American botanist, botanical collector, curator and teacher (1895–1992)
Barbara A. Schaal
German biologist
Elizabeth May McClintock
American botanist (1912-2004)
Almut Gitter Jones
German born U.S. botanist (1923–2013)
Nellie Adalesa Brown
American botanist
Martha Daniell Logan
American botanist and writer (1704-1779)
Mildred Esther Mathias
American botanist, horticulturalist, botanical collector and university teacher (1906-1995)
Mary K. Bryan
American botanist (1877-1926)
Helen Margaret Gilkey
American botanist, mycologist and scientific illustrator (1886-1972)
Caroline Kathryn Allen
American botanist (1904-1975)
Carlotta Case Hall
American botanist (1880-1949)
Alice Haskins
American botanist (1880-1971)
Hannah Caroline Aase
botanist (1883-1980)
Ethel Zoe Bailey
American botanist and curator (1889-1983)
Bernice Giduz Schubert
American botanist & scholar (1913-2000)
Linda Katherine Escobar
American botanist (1940-1993)
Sara Plummer Lemmon
American botanist (1836-1923)
Charlotte Elliott
American plant physiologist
Patricia Kern Holmgren
American botanist, botanical collector, curator, editor and director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium (1940 - )
Mary Klett Gibson Henry
American botanist and botanical collector (1884-1967)
Ruth Florence Allen
American botanist, phytopathologist and mycologist (1879-1963)
Florence Meier Chase
American botanist (1902-1978)
Agnes Quirk
American botanist (1884-1974)
Alice Faber Tryon
American botanist (1920-2009)
Elizabeth Coleman White
American blueberry botanist (1871-1954)
Vicki Ann Funk
American botanist for the National Museum of Natural History (1947-2019)