Bertram Whittier Wells

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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).

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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.