Category
page 1Botanists active in North America
Adelbert von Chamisso
German poet and botanist (1781–1838)
Joseph Banks
English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820)
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
French naturalist (1783-1840)
Asa Gray
American botanist (1810–1888)
Aimé Bonpland
French physician, botanist and explorer (1773-1858)
Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
German botanist (1797-1848)
Louis Claude Richard
French botanist (1754-1821)
Carl Sigismund Kunth
German botanist (1788–1850)
Thomas Nuttall
English botanist and zoologist in America (1786-1859)
Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
Baltic German physician, naturalist and explorer (1793-1831)
William Bartram
American naturalist (1739-1823)
Charles Plumier
French botanist (1646-1704)
John Bartram
American botanist (1699-1777)
Alice Eastwood
Canadian American botanist (1859-1953)
Pehr Kalm
Swedish scientist and priest (1716-1779)
Sereno Watson
American botanist (1826-1892)
David Douglas
Scottish botanist (1799–1834)
John Torrey
American botanist (1796–1873)
Archibald Menzies
Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist (1754-1842)
George Engelmann
German-American physician and botanist (1809-1884)
John Kunkel Small
American botanist (1869-1938)
John Ellis
linen merchant, botanist and naturalist (1710-1776)
Palisot de Beauvois
French naturalist and entomologist (1752–1820)
André Michaux
French botanist and explorer (1746-1802)
George Ledyard Stebbins
American botanist and geneticist (1906-2000)
Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
German botanist (1794–1866)
Carrie Matilda Derick
Canadian botanist and geneticist (1862-1941)
Charles Sprague Sargent
American botanist (1841-1927)
Frederick Traugott Pursh
German-American botanist (1774-1820)
Edward Wilber Berry
American paleobotanist (1875-1945)
Humphry Marshall
American botanist (1722-1801)
Thomas Walter
American botanist (c. 1740 - 1789)
Edward Tuckerman
American botanist (1817–1886)
Margaret Clay Ferguson
American botanist and botanical collector (1863-1951)
Gustav Heinrich von Bongard
German botanist (1786-1839)
Frederik Liebmann
Danish botanist (1813-1856)
Alfred Rehder
German-American professor of botany (1863-1949)
James L. Reveal
U.S. botanist (1941–2015)
Edward Palmer
British botanist and archaeologist (1831-1911)
Charles Christopher Parry
British-American botanist and mountain climber (1823–1890)
Jean-Baptiste Labat
French botanist (1663-1738)
Rupert Charles Barneby
British born American botanist (1911-2000)
José Mariano Mociño
New Spain botanist (1757-1820)
George Gordon
British botanist (1806-1879)
Eric Hultén
Swedish botanist (1894-1981)
Áskell Löve
Icelandic botanist (1916–1994)
Robert Folger Thorne
American botanist (1920-2015)
William Henry Brewer
American botanist (1828-1910)
W. W. Ashe
botanist and forester with the North Carolina Geological Survey (1872–1932)
Mariano Lagasca
Spanish doctor, writer and botanist (1776-1839)
Karl Theodor Hartweg
German botanist (1812-1871)
Sven Berggren
Swedish botanist (1837-1917)
John Fraser
botanist from Scotland (1750-1811)
Francis Masson
British botanist (1741-1805)
Robert Brown
British scientist, explorer, and author (1842-1895)
Townshend Stith Brandegee
American botanist (1843-1925)
Howard Scott Gentry
American botanist (1903-1993)
Warren H. Wagner
American botanist (1920-2000)
Edward Frederick Anderson
American botanist (1931-2001)