Bertram Whittier Wells

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about B.W. Wells, botanist and ecologist. For B.W. Wells, literary scholar, see Benjamin W. Wells.

Bertram Whittier (B.W.) Wells (1884-1978) was an American botanist and ecologist active in North Carolina. His most influential work was Natural Gardens of North Carolina (1932).

[edit] References

• NC Native Plant Society
• B.W. Wells Association
• IPNI--accessed 26 May 2006
• James R. Troyer (1993). Nature's Champion: B.W. Wells, Tar Heel Ecologist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2081-4.
• B.W. Wells (1932) Natural Gardens of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (2002 reprint has a brief biography of Wells by Lawrence S. Earley.) ISBN 0-8078-2667-7. See UNC Press page for an excerpt of Natural Gardens.