List of women botanists

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Name Description Birth Death Country Image
A.S. Losina- Losinskaja Soviet botanist (1903–1958) 1903 1958 Russia
Adriana Hoffmann Chilean botanist 1940 Chile
Adrienne Clarke Australian botanist 1938-01-06
Agnes Arber British botanist 1879-02-23 1960-03-22 United Kingdom
Agnes Block Dutch botanist and art collector 1629-10-29 1704-04-20 Netherlands
Agnes Ibbetson British physiologist 1757 1823-02 United Kingdom
Agnes Quirk American botanist 1884 1974 United States of America
Aimée Antoinette Camus French botanist 1879-05-01 1965-04-17 France
Aino Henssen german lichenologist 1925-04-12 2011-08-29 Germany
Alice Eastwood Canadian American botanist 1859-01-19 1953-10-30 Canada
United States of America
Alice Haskins American botanist 1880-04-24 1971-10-16 United States of America
Alice Lounsberry Botanist 1872 1949 United States of America
Alice Pegler South African Botanist 1861-07-21 1929-06-17 South Africa
Alicia Lourteig Argentine botanist 1913-12-17 2003-07-30 Argentina
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps American educator and botanist 1793-07-15 1884-07-15 United States of America
Amalie Dietrich German naturalist 1821-05-26 1891-03-09 Germany
Amy Jacot Guillarmod South African botanist 1911-05-23 1992 South Africa
Angela Piskernik botanist and conservationist 1886-08-27 1967-12-23 Slovenia
Ann Marvet Estonian botanist 1939-04-21
Anna Amelia Obermeyer South African botanist 1907-07-30 2001-10-10 British Empire
South Africa
Anna Atkins English botanist and photographer 1799-03-16 1871-06-09 United Kingdom
Anna Maria Walker Botanist in Ceylon 1778 1852-09-08
Anna Murray Vail botanist 1863-01-07 1955-12-18 United States of America
Anna Russell Russell [née Worsley], Anna (1807–1876), botanist 1807 1876
Anna Schchian Russian botanyst 1905-07-09 1990-05-15 Soviet Union
Anna Weber-Van Bosse Marine biologist 1852-03-27 1942-10-29 Netherlands
Anne Brewis Botanist 2002
Anne Catherine Hof Blinks botanist 1903 1995
Anne Elizabeth Ball Irish botanist, algologist, and botanical illustrator 1808 1872 Ireland
Annie Lorrain Smith British lichenologist 1854-10-23 1937-09-07 United Kingdom
Annie Morrill Smith American botanist 1856-02-13 1946 United States of America
Anthea Phillipps Botanist 1956-06-03 Malaysia
Antonina Borissova Russian botanist 1903 1970
1977
Soviet Union
Antonina Pojarkova expert on caucasian flora 1897 1980 Soviet Union
Astrid Cleve Botanist, geologist, chemist 1875-01-22 1968-04-08 Sweden
Avishag Zahavi Israeli biologist 1922 Israel
Barbara G. Briggs Botanist 1934-06-15
1934-11-22
1934
Australia
Barbara McClintock American scientist and cytogeneticist 1902-06-16 1992-09-02 United States of America
Barbara Pickersgill British botanist 1940
Beatrice Willard botanist 1927-12-19
1925
2003 United States of America
Bernadette Cozart American gardener and botanist 1949-05-17 2009-07-27
Bernice Giduz Schubert American botanist 1913-10-06 2000-08-14 United States of America
Berthe Hoola van Nooten Dutch botanist 1817-10-12 1892-04-12 Netherlands
Blanca Renée Arrillaga Uruguayan scientist 1917 2011 Argentina
Bonnie C. Templeton American botanist 1906-10-23 2002 United States of America
Carmen Lelia Cristóbal Botanist 1932 Argentina
Carrie Derick Canadian botanist and geneticist 1862-01-14 1941-11-10 Canada
Catharine Furbish American botanist 1834-05-09 1931-12-06 United States of America
Catharine Parr Traill English-Canadian author 1802-01-09 1899-08-29 Canada
Catherine Gage Irish botanist 1815-05-18 1892-02-16
Cecile Hulse Matschat American botanist and geographer 1895 1976
Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis American botanist and plant collector 1874-06-27 1956-03-17 United States of America
Charlotte Elliott American plant physiologist 1883 1974
Chen Hang Botanist 1931
Chicita F. Culberson American lichenologist 1931-11-01 United States of America
Christine Buisman Dutch botanist 1900-03-22 1936-03-27 Netherlands
Christine Marie Berkhout Dutch biologist 1893 1932 Netherlands
Clara Eaton Cummings American cryptogamic botanist 1855-07-13 1906-12-28 United States of America
Clara Ethelinda Larter English botanist 1847-06-27 1936-05-13 United Kingdom
Clara H. Hasse American botanist 1880 1926-10-10 United States of America
Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi Botanist, aristocrat 1760 1830 Italy
Cleofé Caldéron Botanist 1929-10-26 2007-03-19 Argentina
Constance Endicott Hartt American biologist 1900-11-02 1984-12-21 United States of America
Cythna Letty South African botanical artist 1895-01-01 1985-05-03 South Africa
Daphne Osborne Botanist 1930-03-07 2006-06-16
Deborah M. Pearsall American paleoethnobotany 1950 United States of America
Dianne Edwards Palaeobotanist 1942 United Kingdom
Doris Löve Swedish-Icelandic botanist (1918–2000) 1918-01-02 2000-02-25 Sweden
Dorothea Pertz Pertz, Dorothea Frances Matilda [Dora] (1859–1939), botanist 1859-03-14 1939-03-06
Dorothy Popenoe English archaeologist and botanist 1899-06 <some value>
Edith Gertrude Schwartz 1877-10-05 1971-07-26
Edith Layard Stephens South African botanist 1884 1966 South Africa
Edna H. Fawcett American botanist 1879 1960 United States of America
Edna P. Plumstead Paleobotanist 1903-09-15 1989-09-23
Effie Almira Southworth American botanist 1860 1947
Elaine Bullard British botanist 1915 2011
Eleanor Marion Bennett 1942
Eleanor Mary Reid British palaeobotanist 1860-11-13 1953-09-28 United Kingdom
Elena Paunero Ruiz Spanish botanist 1906-09-21 2009-03-09
Elisa Caroline Bommer Belgian botanist 1832-01-19 1910-01-17
Elisa de Vilmorin French horticulturalist 1826-05-03 1868-08-05 France
Elisabeth Christina von Linné Swedish botanist 1743 1782 Sweden
Elisabeth Gantt American botanist 1934 United States of America
Eliza Amy Hodgson Botanist 1888-10-10 1983-01-07 New Zealand
Eliza Ann Youmans American botanist 1826-12-17 1914-09-27 United States of America
Eliza Standerwick Gregory Botanist 1840-12-06 1932-03-22 United Kingdom
Elizabeth A. Widjaja Botanist 1951
Elizabeth Coleman White Blueberry botanist 1871-10-05 1954-11-11 United States of America
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton American botanist 1857-01-09 1934-02-25 United States of America
Elizabeth Jill Cowley British botanist 1950 United Kingdom
Elizabeth McClintock Botanist 1912 2004 United States of America
Ellen Hutchins Irish botanist 1785 1815 Ireland
Ellen Schulz Quillin American botanist, author and museum director 1892-06-16 1970-05-06 United States of America
Ellen Willmott English horticulturist 1858-08-19 1934-09-27
Ellen Wright Blackwell Writer, botanist 1864-10-07 1952-02-24 New Zealand
Elsa Beata Bunge Botanist 1734-04-18 1819-01-19 Sweden
Elsa Nyholm Swedish botanist 1911 2002 Sweden
Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen South African botanist 1912 2006
Elsie M. Burrows British Botanist 1913 1986 United Kingdom
Elsie Mary Griffin Botany teacher, community organisation administrator 1884-11-01 1968-05-03 New Zealand
Elsie Maud Wakefield British mycologist 1886-07-03 1972-06-17 United Kingdom
Elva Lawton American botanist 1896-04-03 1993-02-03 United States of America
Elzada Clover American botanist 1896 1980 United States of America
Emilie Snethlage Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist 1868-04-13 1929-11-25 Brazil
Germany
Emily Collins British botanist 1858 1945 United Kingdom
Emily Dix Paleobotanist 1904-05-21 1972 United Kingdom
Emma Lucy Braun American botanist 1889-04-19 1971-03-05 United States of America
Estella Leopold American botanist 1927 United States of America
Ethel Bailey Higgins American botanist 1866 1963 United States of America
Ethel Sargant Botanist 1863-10-28 1918-01-16 United Kingdom
Ethel Zoe Bailey 1889-11-17 1983 United States of America
Eva Mameli Calvino Botanist 1886-02-12 1978-03-31 Italy
Eve Palmer South African non-fiction writer and botanist 1916-02-20 1998
Florence Hedges American botanist 1878-08-24 1956-12-17 United States of America
Florence Meier Chase American botanist 1902 1978-05-06 United States of America
Florence Woolward British botanical illustrator and botanist 1854 1936-01-03 United Kingdom
Frances Acton 1794-07-07 1881-01-24 United Kingdom
Frances Margaret Leighton South African botanist 1909-03-08 2006-01-08 Union of South Africa
South Africa
Australia
Frances Meehan Latterell Botanist 1920-12-21 2008-11-05 United States of America
Frances Theodora Parsons Botanist 1861-12-05 1952-06-10 United States of America
Françoise Ardré French botanist 1931 2010
Gabriele Rabel Austrian botanist 1880 1963 Austria
Gabrielle Howard British botanist 1876-10-03 1930-08-18 United Kingdom
Georgia Mason Botanist 1910-03-16 2007-10-08 United States of America
Gertrude Bacon Writer, Aeronaut, Botanist 1874-04-19 1949-12-22
Gloria Galeano Garcés Colombian scientist 1958 Colombia
Greta Stevenson New Zealand mycologist 1911-06-10 1990-12-18 New Zealand
Gulielma Lister Lister, Gulielma (1860–1949), mycologist and naturalist 1860-10-28 1949-05-18
Guranda Gvaladze Georgian botanist 1932-06-23
Haide-Ene Rebassoo Estonian botanist 1935-01-25
Hanna Margońska Botanist, Taxonomist 1968 Poland
Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen Norwegian biologist 1873-09-11 1943-03-13 Norway
Hannah Caroline Aase 1980-11-23
Harriet Creighton American geneticist 1909-06-27 2004-01-09 United States of America
Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus South African botanist (1877-1970) 1877-07-31 1970-04-05 British Empire
Union of South Africa
South Africa
Hazel Marguerite Schmoll American botanist (1890–1990) 1890-08-23 1990-01-31 United States of America
Heidrun Elsbeth Klara Osterwald Hartmann German botanist 1942-08-05
1942
Germany
Helen Margaret Gilkey American mycologist 1886 1972 United States of America
Helen Morgenthau Fox Botanist and author of gardening books 1884-05-27 1974-01-13 United States of America
Helen Porter British botanist 1899-11-10 1987-12-07
Helen Sharsmith American botanist 1905-08-26 1982-11-10 United States of America
Helena Perpenti Italian scientist (1764–1846) 1764 1846 Italy
Henrietta Hooker American botanist 1851-12-12 1929-05-13 United States of America
Hildur Krog Norwegian botanist 1922-03-22 2014-08-25 Norway
Hiltje Maas-van de Kamer Dutch botanist 1941-12-09 Netherlands
Hélène Durand 1883-08 1934-08
Ilma Grace Stone Australian botanist 1913 2001
Inez Clare Verdoorn South African botanist 1896-06-15 1989 South Africa
Inger Nordal Norwegian botanist 1944-08-11
1944
Norway
Irene Manton British botanist 1904-04-17 1988-05-13 United Kingdom
Irina Grudzinskaya Russian botanist 1920 2011
Isabel Clifton Cookson Australian botanist 1893-12-25 1973-07-01
Isabella Abbott Educator, ethnobotanist 1919-06-20 2010-10-28 United States of America
Isobel Wylie Hutchison Scottish Arctic traveller and botanist 1889 1982
Janaki Ammal Indian botanist 1897 1984-02 India
Jane C. Loudon English science fiction writer 1807-08-19 1858-07-13 United Kingdom
Jane Colden Botanist 1724-03-27 1766-03-10 United States of America
Jane Glazebrook American botanist
Janet Russell Perkins American botanist and explorer (1853–1933) 1853 1933 United States of America
Janet Sprent British botanist 1934 United Kingdom
Jantina Tammes Dutch botanist and geneticist 1871-06-23 1947-09-20 Netherlands
Jayne V. Armstrong British botanist United Kingdom
Jean Finnegan Australian botanist
Jean Galbraith Australian botanist and writer 1906-03-28 1999-01-02
Jean White-Haney Australian botanist 1877-03-11 1952-10-21
Jenny Hempel Danish botanist 1882-02-19 1975-02-13 Denmark
Joan Margaret Legge British botanist 1885-02-21 1939-07-04
Joanne Chory American plant biologist 1955-03-19 United States of America
Johanna Westerdijk Dutch plant pathologist 1883-01-04 1961-11-15 Netherlands
Joyce Lambert Botanist 1916-06-23 2005-05-04
Joyce Winifred Vickery Australian botanist 1908-12-15 1979-05-29
Judith Gay West Australian botanist 1949
Julia Morton Botanist, Author 1912-04-25 1996-09-10 United States of America
Julia Wilmotte Henshaw Canadian botanist and writer 1869 1937 Canada
Julie F. Barcelona Filipino botanist 1972
Juliet Wege Botanist 1971
Kate Sessions American botanist and landscape architect 1857-11-08 1940-03-24 United States of America
Katharina Perch-Nielsen Swiss orienteer Switzerland
Katherine Esau German-American botanist 1898-04-03 1997-06-04 United States of America
Katherine Kane Irish botanist 1811-03-18 1886-02-25 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Katherine Warington British botanist 1897-09-05
Kathleen Basford British botanist 1916-09-06 1998-12-20
Kathleen Beyer British botanist 1892 1968 United Kingdom
Kathleen Maisey Curtis Mycologist 1892-08-15 1994 New Zealand
Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker British phycologist 1901 1957
Käthe Hoffmann German botanist (1883–1931) 1883 1931 German Empire
Weimar Republic
Lady Anne Monson English botanist and collector of plants and insects 1726 1776
Lela Viola Barton Botanist, specializing in seeds. 1901-11-14 1967-07-31 United States of America
Libby Houston Botanist 1941-12-09 United Kingdom
Liivia Laasimer Estonian botanist 1918-06-21 1988-02-26
Lilian Clarke botanist and teacher 1866-01-27 1934-02-12 United Kingdom
Lilian Gibbs Botanist 1870-09-10 1925-01-30 United Kingdom
Lilian Snelling Botanical illustrator 1879 1972-10-12
Lily May Perry Canadian botanist (1895–1992) 1895-01-05 1992-03-11 United States of America
Lois Brako American botanist 1950-12-05 United States of America
Lucia McCulloch American botanist 1873-02-26 1955-02-10 United States of America
Lucy Beatrice Moore Botanist, ecologist 1906-07-14 1987-06-09 New Zealand
Lucy Cranwell New Zealand botanist 1907-08-07 2000-06-08 New Zealand
Ludmila Kuprianova russian botanist 1914 1987-01-13 Soviet Union
Luisa Eugenia Navas Chilean botanist 1918 Chile
Lynn G. Clark American botanist 1956 United States of America
Margaret A. Dix 1939-05-19 United Kingdom
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland British duchess 1715-02-11 1785-04-09 United Kingdom
Margaret Clay Ferguson American botanist 1863-08-29 1951-08-28 United States of America
Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow Canadian mycologist 1923-04-16 2008-04-01 Canada
Margaret Gatty British writer 1809-06-03 1873-10-04 United Kingdom
Margaret Jane Benson English botanist 1859 1936 United Kingdom
Margaret Levyns South AFrican botanist 1890-10-24 1975-11-11 South Africa
Margarita Engle American children's writer, columnist, poet 1951 Cuba
United States of America
Mari Reitalu Estonian botanist 1941-02-10
Maria Fadiman Botanist 1969-07-04 United States of America
Maria Gugelberg von Moos Swiss botanist 1836 1918 Switzerland
Maria Jacson English writer 1755 1829-10-10 United Kingdom
Maria Koepcke German and Peruvian ornithologist 1924-05-15 1971-12-24 Germany
Maria Wilman South African botanist 1867-04-29 1957-11-09
Marian Farquharson Naturalist, women's rights activist 1846-07-02 1912-04-20 United Kingdom
Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz Dutch physopathologist 1898-07-12 1969-07-27 Netherlands
Marie Jean-Eudes Tellier Religious Sister and botanist 1897 1978 Canada
Marie Prins South African botanist 1948 South Africa
Marie Stopes British paleontologist 1880-10-15 1958-10-02 United Kingdom
Marie Taylor American botanist 1911 1990-12 United States of America
Marie-Anne Libert Belgian botanist 1782-04-07 1865-01-14 Belgium
Marie-Hélène Sachet French botanist 1922 1986 France
Marietta Pallis Greek-British ecologist 1882 1963
Marion Delf-Smith British botanist 1883-01-31 1980-02-23 United Kingdom
Marion E. Moodie Canadian botanist 1867 1958
Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler English palaeobotanist 1897-05-18 1983-10-01 United Kingdom
Mary Agard Pocock 1886 1977-07-20 South Africa
Mary Agnes Chase American botanical illustrator and botanist 1869-04-29 1963-09-24 United States of America
Mary Albertson American botanist United States of America
Mary Ann Robb Botanist 1829 1912
Mary Bowerman American botanist 1908-01-25 2005-08-21 United States of America
Mary Elizabeth Barber British naturalist, South African biologist 1818-01-05 1899-09-04 United Kingdom
Mary Gibson Henry Botanist 1884 1967 United States of America
Mary K. Bryan American botanist 1877-02-13 1926 United States of America
Mary Katharine Brandegee American botanist 1844-10-28 1920-04-03 United States of America
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort English noblewoman, gardener and botanist 1630-12-16 1715-01-07 United Kingdom
Mary Sophie Young American botanist 1872-09-20 1919 United States of America
Mary Strong Clemens American botanist 1873-01-03 1968-04-13 United States of America
Mary Sutherland Forester, botanist 1893 1955 New Zealand
Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo New Zealand botanist 1944
Mary Tindale Botanist 1920-09-19 2011-03-31
Mary Treat American biologist 1830-09-07 1923-04-11 United States of America
Mary Wharton American botanist 1912-10-12 1991 United States of America
María Elena Galiano Argentine arachnologist 1928 2000-10-30
2000
Argentina
Matilda Cullen Knowles Irish botanist 1864-01-31 1933-04-27
1933-04-23
Ireland
Meenakshi Banerjee Indian cyanobacteriologist India
Mildred Adams Fenton American scientist 1899-11-14 1995-12-07 United States of America
Mildred Ester Mathias American botanist 1906-09-19 1995-02-16 United States of America
Miriam Phoebe de Vos South African botanist 1912 2005
Monique Keraudren French botanist 1928
1928-12-08
1981
1981-05-25
France
Nancy Adams botanist and botanical artist 1926-05-19 2007-03-27 New Zealand
Nancy Tyson Burbidge Australian botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator 1912-08-05 1977-03-04
Naomi Feinbrun Botanist, University Professor 1900 1995-03-08 Russian Empire
Romania
Israel
Nellie Adalesa Brown American botanist 1876 1956 United States of America
Nina Avgustinovna Adolf Russian botanist 1903 1951
Norah Lillian Penston British botanist and academic administrator 1903-08-20 1974-02-01
O.F. Mizgireva 1908 2000
Olga Fédchenko Russian botanist 1845-10-30 1921-04-24 Russian Empire
Olive Blanche Davies Australian artist 1884-10-27
Olive Mary Hilliard South African botanist 1925-07-04 South Africa
Orra White Hitchcock American woman botanical artist 1796-03-08 1863-05-26 United States of America
Ottoline Leyser British botanist 1965-03-07
Pamela S. Soltis American botanist 1970 United States of America
Pamela Woods 1952 United Kingdom
Pat Wolseley Botanist
Paula J. Rudall 1954
Paula Pryke British botanist 1960-04-29 United Kingdom
Pauline Ladiges Australian botanist 1948-01-19
1948
Australia
Phyllis Clinch Irish botanist 1901-09-12 1984-10-19
Pippa Greenwood British botanist United Kingdom
Princess Theresa of Bavaria Bavarian princess, scientist, philanthropist 1850-11-12 1925-12-19
1925-09-19
Germany
Priscilla Susan Bury British botanist 1799-01-12 1872-03-08 United Kingdom
Rana Ellen Munns Australian botanist
Rica Erickson Australian historian and botanist 1908-08-10 2009-09-08 Australia
Rosa Olga Sansom Teacher, museum director, botanist, broadcaster, writer 1900 1989 New Zealand
Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann Filipino-American microbiologist and botanist 1937-11-23 2005-09-04 United States of America
Rosette Batarda Fernandes Portuguese scientist 1916-01-10 2005-05-28 Portugal
Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris botanist 1895-04-13 1978-06-30 United States of America
Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire Botanist 1893 1950 United States of America
Ruth Kiew 1946
Ruth Mason Botanist 1913-11-07 1990-05-14 New Zealand
Ruth Patrick American botanist and limnologist 1907-11-26 2013-09-23 United States of America
Sandra Knapp botanist 1956-12-09
1956
Sara Plummer Lemmon American botanist 1836-09-03 1923 United States of America
Sarah Bowdich Lee English naturalist and author 1791-09-10 1856-09-22 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sarah Darwin English botanist 1964-04-14 United Kingdom
Shirley Sherwood Botanist 1933-07-01 United Kingdom
Shiu-Ying Hu Chinese botanist 1908-02-26 2012-05-22
Silvia Zenari Italian botanist 1895-03-31 1956-06-30 Italy
Siri von Reis American botanist and writer 1931-02-10 United States of America
Sophia Eckerson American botanist 1954-07-19 United States of America
Stella Grace Maisie Carr Australian ecologist 1912-02-26 1988-09-09 Australia
Susan Carter Holmes British botanist 1933 United Kingdom
Susanne Renner German biologist 1954-10-05
1954
Germany
Thekla Resvoll Norwegian botanist 1871-05-22 1948-06-14 Norway
Theodora Lisle Prankerd British botanist 1878-06-21 1939-11-11 United Kingdom
Thistle Yolette Harris Australian botanist 1902-07-29 1990-07-05
Tiiu Kull Estonian botanist 1958-08-26
Tracy L. Kahn American botanist United States of America
Vera Scarth-Johnson Botanist 1912 1999
Victoria Ann Funk American botanist (born 1947) 1947 United States of America
Violet Dickson English botanist, writer, and Orientalist 1896-09-03 1991-01-04
Vivienne Cassie Cooper New Zealand planktologist and botanist 1926-09-29 New Zealand
Wanda Kirkbride Farr US botanist 1895-01-09 1983 United States of America
Wanda Zabłocka Polish botanist, phytopathologist, mycologist 1900-12-20 1978-11-30 Poland
Winifred Brenchley British botanist 1883-08-10 1953-10-27
Winifred Curtis British–Australian botanist 1905-06-15 2005-10-14 Australia
Ynes Mexia Mexican botanist 1870-05-24 1938-07-12 United States of America
Mexico
Zinaida Botschantzeva Russian botanyst and embryologist, professor 1907-08-10 1973-08-17 Soviet Union
Éanna ni Lamhna Entomologist, botanist, ecologist, radio and television presenter, author
Ülle Kukk Estonian botanist and conservationist
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