List of women botanists explained

This is a list of women botanists.

NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath dateCountryImage
A.S. Losina-LosinskajaSoviet botanist (1903–1958)19031958Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Adeline AmesAmerican mycologist18791976United States
Adriana HoffmannChilean botanist1940Chile
Adrienne ClarkeAustralian botanist1938-01-06
Agnes ArberBritish botanist1879-02-231960-03-22United Kingdom
Agnes BlockDutch botanist and art collector1629-10-291704-04-20Netherlands
Agnes IbbetsonBritish physiologist17571823-02United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Agnes QuirkAmerican botanist18841974United States
Aime MäemetsEstonian scientist1930-09-291996-07-17
Aimée Antoinette CamusFrench botanist1879-05-011965-04-17France
Aino HenssenGerman lichenologist1925-04-122011-08-29Germany
Alice EastwoodCanadian American botanist1859-01-191953-10-30Canada
United States
Alice Faber TryonAmerican botanist19202009United States
Alice HaskinsAmerican botanist1880-04-241971-10-16United States
Alice LounsberryBotanist18721949United States
Alice PeglerSouth African botanist1861-07-211929-06-17South Africa
Alicia AmherstEnglish horticulturist and author of the first scholarly account of English gardening history.18651941
Alicia LourteigArgentine botanist1913-12-172003-07-30Argentina
Almira Hart Lincoln PhelpsAmerican educator and botanist1793-07-151884-07-15United States
Almut Gitter JonesGerman-American botanist and plant taxonomist1923-09-082013-10-12United States
Amalie DietrichGerman naturalist1821-05-261891-03-09Germany
Amelia Griffithsamateur phycologist17681858
Amy Jacot GuillarmodSouth African botanist1911-05-231992South Africa
Angela Piskernikbotanist and conservationist1886-08-271967-12-23Slovenia
Angélica M. Arambarribotanist and mycologist1945-04-222012-12-11Argentina
Angie BeckwithAmerican phytopathologist1881-01-271964-10-02United States
Ann BishopBritish biologist1899-12-191990-05-07
Ann MarvetEstonian botanist1939-04-21
Anna Amelia ObermeyerSouth African botanist1907-07-302001-10-10British Empire
South Africa
Anna AtkinsEnglish botanist and photographer1799-03-161871-06-09United Kingdom
Anna Maria WalkerBotanist in Ceylon17781852-09-08
Anna MaurizioSwiss botanist1900-11-261993-07-24Switzerland
Anna Murray VailAmerican botanist1863-01-071955-12-18United States
Anna RussellRussell [née Worsley], Anna (1807–1876), botanist18071876
Anna SchchianRussian botanist1905-07-091990-05-15Soviet Union
Anna VickersBritish phycologist1852-06-281906-08-01United Kingdom
Anna Weber-Van BosseMarine biologist1852-03-271942-10-29Kingdom of the Netherlands
Lady Anne BrewisBotanist1911-03-262002United Kingdom
Anne Catherine Hof Blinksbotanist19031995United States
Anne Elizabeth BallIrish botanist, algologist, and botanical illustrator18081872Ireland
Annie GravattAmerican phytopathologist18941986United States
Annie Lorrain SmithBritish lichenologist1854-10-231937-09-07United Kingdom
Annie Morrill SmithAmerican botanist1856-02-131946United States
Anthea PhillippsBotanist1956-06-03Malaysia
Antonina BorissovaRussian botanist19031970Soviet Union
Antonina Pojarkovaexpert on caucasian flora18971980Soviet Union
Arabella Elizabeth RoupellBritish artist1817-03-231914-07-31South Africa
Astrid CleveBotanist, geologist, chemist1875-01-221968-04-08Sweden
Audrey BrooksBritish botanist and plant pathologist19332018United Kingdom
Augusta Vera DuthieSouth African botanist and mycologist (1881-1963)1881-07-181963-08-08South Africa
Avishag ZahaviIsraeli biologist19222021-10-31Israel
Barbara G. BriggsBotanist1934-06-15
1934-11-22
1934
Australia
Barbara PickersgillBritish botanist1940
Beatrice Willardbotanist1927-12-19
1925
2003United States
Bernadette CozartAmerican gardener and botanist1949-05-172009-07-27
Bernice Giduz SchubertAmerican botanist1913-10-062000-08-14United States
Bertha Stoneman1866-08-181943-04-30United States
Berthe Hoola van NootenDutch botanist1817-10-121892-04-12Kingdom of the Netherlands
Blanca Renée ArrillagaUruguayan scientist19172011Argentina
Bonnie C. TempletonAmerican botanist1906-10-232002United States
Carlotta Case HallAmerican botanist18801949United States
Carmen Lelia CristóbalBotanist1932Argentina
Carmen PujalsArgentinian botanist19162003Argentina
Carrie DerickCanadian botanist and geneticist1862-01-141941-11-10Canada
Catharine FurbishAmerican botanist1834-05-091931-12-06United States
Catharine Parr TraillEnglish-Canadian author1802-01-091899-08-29Canada
Catherine GageIrish botanist1815-05-181892-02-16
Cecile Hulse MatschatAmerican botanist and geographer18951976
Charlotte Cortlandt EllisAmerican plant collector1874-06-271956-03-17United States
Charlotte ElliottAmerican plant physiologist18831974
Charlotte Grace O'BrienIrish writer18451909
Chen HangBotanist1931
Chicita F. CulbersonAmerican lichenologist1931-11-01United States
Christine BuismanDutch botanist1900-03-221936-03-27Kingdom of the Netherlands
Christine Marie BerkhoutDutch biologist18931932Kingdom of the Netherlands
Clara Eaton CummingsAmerican cryptogamic botanist1855-07-131906-12-28United States
Clara Ethelinda LarterEnglish botanist1847-06-271936-05-13United Kingdom
Clara H. HasseAmerican botanist18801926-10-10United States
Clarissa TracyAmerican botanist1818-11-121905-11-13United States
Clelia Durazzo GrimaldiBotanist, aristocrat17601830
Cleofé CaldéronBotanist1929-10-262007-03-19Argentina
Constance Endicott HarttAmerican biologist1900-11-021984-12-21United States
Cythna LettySouth African botanical artist1895-01-011985-05-03South Africa
Daphne OsborneBotanist1930-03-072006-06-16United Kingdom
Deborah M. PearsallAmerican paleoethnobotany1950United States
Dianne EdwardsPalaeobotanist1942United Kingdom
Doris LöveSwedish-Icelandic botanist (1918–2000)1918-01-022000-02-25Sweden
Dorothea PertzPertz, Dorothea Frances Matilda [Dora] (1859–1939), botanist1859-03-141939-03-06
Dorothy Adlington CadburyBritish botanist and company director1892-10-141987-08-21United Kingdom
Dorothy PopenoeEnglish botanist and archaeologist1899-06
1899
1932United Kingdom
Éanna ni LamhnaEntomologist, botanist, ecologist, radio and television presenter, author1950
Edith ColemanAustralian naturalist18741951Australia
Edith Gertrude Schwartzbotanist (1877-1971)1877-10-051971-07-26United States
Edith Katherine CashAmerican mycologist1890-10-041992-04-06
Edith Layard StephensSouth African botanist18841966South Africa
Edna H. FawcettAmerican botanist18791960United States
Edna P. PlumsteadPaleobotanist1903-09-151989-09-23
Effie Almira SouthworthAmerican botanist18601947
Eileen Adelaide BruceBritish botanist (1905–1955)19051955United Kingdom
Elaine BullardBritish botanist19152011
Eleanor Marion Bennettbotanist1942Australia
Eleanor Mary ReidBritish palaeobotanist1860-11-131953-09-28United Kingdom
Eleanor VachellWelsh botanist1879-01-08
1879
1948-12-06
1948
United Kingdom
Elena Paunero RuizSpanish botanist1906-09-212009-03-09Spain
Elisa Caroline BommerBelgian botanist1832-01-191910-01-17
Elisa de VilmorinFrench horticulturalist1826-05-031868-08-05France
Elisabeth Christina von LinnéSwedish botanist1743-06-141782-04-15Sweden
Elisabeth GanttAmerican botanist1934United States
Elisabeth Schiemannbotanist, geneticist1881-08-151972-01-03Germany
Elisabeth Tschermak-WoessAustrian cytologist, phycologist and lichenologist1917-01-282001-04-26Austria
Elise HofmannAustrian paleobotanist1889-02-051955-03-14Austria
Eliza Amy HodgsonBotanist1888-10-101983-01-07New Zealand
Eliza Ann YoumansAmerican botanist1826-12-171914-09-27United States
Eliza Standerwick GregoryBotanist1840-12-061932-03-22United Kingdom
Elizabeth A. Widjajabotanist1951
Elizabeth BlackwellScottish botanical illustrator and author17071758United Kingdom
Elizabeth Coleman WhiteBlueberry botanist1871-10-051954-11-11United States
Elizabeth Gertrude BrittonAmerican botanist1857-01-091934-02-25United States
Elizabeth Jill CowleyBritish botanist1950United Kingdom
Elizabeth LomaxEnglish botanist1810-02-221895-03-16United Kingdom
Elizabeth McClintockBotanist19122004United States
Elizabeth Stack (nee Jones)Collector of ferns and mosses18291919New Zealand
Elizabeth TwiningEnglish botanical illustrator18051889United Kingdom
Elke MackenzieBritish-American lichenologist1911-09-111990-01-18United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ellen HutchinsIrish botanist17851815Ireland
Ellen Schulz QuillinAmerican botanist, author and museum director1892-06-161970-05-06United States
Ellen WillmottEnglish horticulturist1858-08-191934-09-27United Kingdom
Ellen Wright BlackwellWriter, botanist1864-10-071952-02-24New Zealand
Elsa Beata BungeBotanist1734-04-181819-01-19Sweden
Elsa NyholmSwedish botanist19112002Sweden
Elsie ConwayBritish botanist and phycologist1902
1902-03-15
1992
1992-07-22
United Kingdom
Elsie Elizabeth EsterhuysenSouth African botanist19122006South Africa
Elsie M. BurrowsBritish Botanist19131986United Kingdom
Elsie Mary GriffinBotany teacher, community organisation administrator1884-11-011968-05-03New Zealand
Elsie Maud WakefieldBritish mycologist1886-07-031972-06-17United Kingdom
Elva LawtonAmerican botanist1896-04-031993-02-03United States
Elzada CloverAmerican botanist18961980United States
Emilie SnethlageBrazilian naturalist and ornithologist1868-04-131929-11-25Brazil
Germany
Emily CollinsBritish botanist18581945United Kingdom
Emily DixPaleobotanist1904-05-211972United Kingdom
Emma ColeAmerican botanist1845-01-231910-04-25United States
Emma Laughlin18661962
Emma Lucy BraunAmerican botanist1889-04-191971-03-05United States
Enid Lucy RobertsonAustralian botanist and conservationist1925-11-202016-07-10Australia
Estella LeopoldAmerican botanist1927United States
Esther OrozcoMexican biologist, researcher and politician1945-04-25Mexico
Ethel Anson Peckhambotanist (1879-1965)18791965
Ethel Bailey HigginsAmerican botanist18661963United States
Ethel de FraineBritish botanist18791918United Kingdom
Ethel SargantBotanist1863-10-281918-01-16United Kingdom
Ethel ThomasEnglish botanist18761944
Ethel Zoe BaileyAmerican botanist (1889-1983)1889-11-171983United States
Eva Mameli CalvinoBotanist1886-02-121978-03-31Italy
Eva Schönbeck-Temesybotanist (1930-2011)19302011
Eve PalmerSouth African non-fiction writer and botanist1916-02-201998South Africa
Evelyn BoothIrish botanist1897-10-301988Ireland
Flora Wambaugh PattersonAmerican mycologist18471928United States
Florence HedgesAmerican botanist1878-08-241956-12-17United States
Florence Meier ChaseAmerican botanist19021978-05-06United States
Florence WoolwardBritish botanical illustrator and botanist18541936-01-03United Kingdom
Frances ActonBritish botanist, archaeologist and artist (1794-1881)1794-07-071881-01-24United Kingdom
Frances Margaret LeightonSouth African botanist1909-03-082006-01-08Union of South Africa
South Africa
Australia
Frances Meehan LatterellBotanist1920-12-212008-11-05United States
Frances Theodora ParsonsBotanist1861-12-051952-06-10United States
Françoise ArdréFrench botanist19312010France
Gabriele RabelAustrian botanist18801963Austria
Gabrielle HowardBritish botanist1876-10-031930-08-18United Kingdom
Georgia MasonBotanist1910-03-162007-10-08United States
Gertrud Dahlgrenbotanist (1931-2009)19312009
Gertrude BaconWriter, Aeronaut, Botanist1874-04-191949-12-22
Gertrude Jekyllgarden designer, artist1843-11-291932-12-08United Kingdom
Gertrude Simmons Burlinghamearly 20th-century American mycologist1872-04-211952-01-11United States
Gloria Galeano GarcésColombian scientist1958-04-222016-03-23Colombia
Grace Evelyn PickfordBiologist19021986United States
Greta StevensonNew Zealand mycologist1911-06-101990-12-18New Zealand
Grethe Rytter HasleNorwegian scientist1920-01-032013-11-09Norway
Gulielma ListerLister, Gulielma (1860–1949), mycologist and naturalist1860-10-281949-05-18
Guranda GvaladzeGeorgian botanist1932-06-232020-01-24
Gwendoline Joyce LewisBritish-born South African botanist (1909–1967)19091967United Kingdom
South Africa
Haide-Ene RebassooEstonian botanist1935-01-25
Hanna MargońskaBotanist, Taxonomist1968Poland
Hanna Resvoll-HolmsenNorwegian biologist1873-09-111943-03-13Norway
Hannah Caroline Aasebotanist (1883-1980)1883-07-121980-11-23
Harriet CreightonAmerican geneticist1909-06-272004-01-09United States
Harriet Margaret Louisa BolusSouth African botanist (1877-1970)1877-07-311970-04-05British Empire
Union of South Africa
South Africa
Hazel Marguerite SchmollAmerican botanist (1890–1990)1890-08-231990-01-31United States
Hedvig LovénSwedish botanist1867 1943
Heidrun Elsbeth Klara Osterwald HartmannGerman botanist1942-08-05
1942
2016-07-11Germany
Helen Margaret GilkeyAmerican mycologist18861972United States
Helen Morgenthau FoxBotanist and author of gardening books1884-05-271974-01-13United States
Helen PorterBritish botanist1899-11-101987-12-07
Helen SharsmithAmerican botanist1905-08-261982-11-10United States
Helena KrzemieniewskaPolish botanist and microbiologist18781966Poland
Helena PerpentiItalian scientist (1764–1846)17641846Italy
Hélène Durandbotanist (1883-1934)1883-081934-08
Helia BravoMexican botanist1901-09-302001-09-26Mexico
Henrietta HookerAmerican botanist1851-12-121929-05-13United States
Hildur KrogNorwegian botanist1922-03-222014-08-25Norway
Hiltje Maas-van de KamerDutch botanist1941-12-09Kingdom of the Netherlands
Ilma Grace StoneAustralian botanist19132001
Inez Clare VerdoornSouth African botanist1896-06-151989South Africa
Inez M. HaringUS botanist18751968USA
Inger NordalNorwegian botanist1944-08-11Norway
Irene MantonBritish botanist1904-04-171988-05-13United Kingdom
Irina GrudzinskayaRussian botanist19202011
Isabel Clifton CooksonAustralian botanist1893-12-251973-07-01Australia
Isabella AbbottEducator, ethnobotanist1919-06-202010-10-28United States
Isabella Prestonbotanist (1881-1965)18811965
Isobel Wylie HutchisonScottish Arctic traveller and botanist18891982
Janaki AmmalIndian botanist18971984-02India
Jane W. LoudonEnglish science fiction writer1807-08-191858-07-13United Kingdom
Jane ColdenBotanist1724-03-271766-03-10United States
Jane GlazebrookAmerican botanist
Jane InghamEnglish botanist and scientific translator1897-08-151982-09-10United Kingdom
Janet Russell PerkinsAmerican botanist and explorer (1853–1933)18531933United States
Janet SprentBritish botanist1934United Kingdom
Janice C. BeatleyAmerican botanist and ecologist1919-03-181987-11-14United States
Jantina TammesDutch botanist and geneticist1871-06-231947-09-20Kingdom of the Netherlands
Jayne V. ArmstrongBritish botanistUnited Kingdom
Jean FinneganAustralian botanist
Jean GalbraithAustralian botanist and writer1906-03-281999-01-02Australia
Jean White-HaneyAustralian botanist1877-03-111952-10-21
Jeanne BaréFrench explorer1740-07-271807-08-05France
Jenny HempelDanish botanist1882-02-191975-02-13Denmark
Joan CribbAustralian botanist1930Australia
Joan DingleyNew Zealand mycologist1916-05-142008-01-01New Zealand
Lady Joan Margaret LeggeBritish botanist1885-02-211939-07-04
Joanne ChoryAmerican plant biologist1955-03-19United States
Johanna WesterdijkDutch plant pathologist1883-01-041961-11-15Kingdom of the Netherlands
Josephine KablickCzech scientist17871863Austrian Empire
Joyce LambertBotanist1916-06-232005-05-04
Joyce Winifred VickeryAustralian botanist1908-12-151979-05-29
Judith Gay WestAustralian botanist1949Australia
Julia MortonBotanist, Author1912-04-251996-09-10United States
Julia Wilmotte HenshawCanadian botanist and writer18691937Canada
Julie F. BarcelonaFilipino botanist1972Philippines
Juliet WegeBotanist1971Australia
Juliette de Bairacli LevyEnglish herbalist and veterinarian19122009United Kingdom
Kate CrooksCanadian botanist18331871Canada
Kate SessionsAmerican botanist and landscape architect1857-11-081940-03-24United States
Katharina Perch-NielsenSwiss orienteer1940-10-26Switzerland
Käthe HoffmannGerman botanist (1883–1931)18831931German Empire
Weimar Republic
Katherine EsauGerman-American botanist1898-04-031997-06-04United States
Katherine KaneIrish botanist1811-03-181886-02-25United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Katherine WaringtonBritish botanist1897-09-051993-07-03
Kathleen Anne Kronbiology professor; studies Ericaceae1956
Kathleen BasfordBritish botanist1916-09-061998-12-20
Kathleen Bever BlackburnBritish botanist18921968United Kingdom
Kathleen Maisey CurtisMycologist1892-08-151994-09-05New Zealand
Kathleen Mary Drew-BakerBritish phycologist19011957
Ladema Langdon1893-01-051977-04
Lady Anne MonsonEnglish botanist and collector of plants and insects17261776
Leia ScheinvarMexican botanist1954Mexico
Lela Viola BartonBotanist, specializing in seeds.1901-11-141967-07-31United States
Lena Clemmons ArtzAmerican botanist1891-08-031976-06-02United States
Libby HoustonBotanist1941-12-09United Kingdom
Liivia LaasimerEstonian botanist1918-06-211988-02-26
Lilian Clarkebotanist and teacher1866-01-271934-02-12United Kingdom
Lilian GibbsBotanist1870-09-101925-01-30United Kingdom
Lilian SnellingBotanical illustrator18791972-10-12United Kingdom
Lily May PerryCanadian botanist (1895–1992)1895-01-051992-03-11United States
Lily Newtonbotanist (1893-1981)1893-01-261981United Kingdom
Lois BrakoAmerican botanist1950-12-05United States
Louisa Grace Fortescue (née Butler), Lady ClermontIrish botanist; discoverer of Lady Clermont's Spleenwort, Asplenium x clermontiae1816-07-181896-11-8Ireland
Louise GuthrieSouth African botanist (1879-1966)1879-10-101966-02-20South Africa
Lucia McCullochAmerican botanist1873-02-261955-02-10United States
Lucy Beatrice MooreBotanist, ecologist1906-07-141987-06-09New Zealand
Lucy CranwellNew Zealand botanist1907-08-072000-06-08New Zealand
Ludmila KuprianovaRussian botanist1914-091987-01-13Soviet Union
Lumina Cotton Riddle SmythAmerican botanist1871-03-181939-02-02USA
Luisa Eugenia NavasChilean botanist1918Chile
Lula PaceFirst female Baylor University professor with a PhD18681925United States
Lynn G. ClarkAmerican botanist1956United States
Lynn MargulisAmerican evolutionary biologist1938-03-052011-11-22United States
Maevia Noemí CorreaArgentinian botanist1914-02-142005-04-18Argentina
Máirin de ValéraIrish botanist19121984
Margaret A. DixBritish botanist1939-05-19United Kingdom
Margaret Adebisi SowunmiNigerian botanist and environmental archaeologist1939-09-24Nigeria
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of PortlandBritish duchess1715-02-111785-04-09United Kingdom
Margaret Clay FergusonAmerican botanist1863-08-291951-08-28United States
Margaret Elizabeth Barr-BigelowCanadian mycologist1923-04-162008-04-01Canada
Margaret GattyBritish writer1809-06-031873-10-04United Kingdom
Margaret Jane BensonEnglish botanist18591936United Kingdom
Margaret Sibella BrownCanadian bryologist18661961Canada
Margaret LevynsSouth AFrican botanist1890-10-241975-11-11South Africa
Margery Claire Carlsonbotanist (1892-1985)1892-11-211985-07-05United States
Margot WilliamsAmerican botanistUnited States
Mari ReitaluEstonian botanist1941-02-10
Maria FadimanBotanist1969-07-04United States
Maria Gugelberg von MoosSwiss botanist18361918Switzerland
Maria JacsonEnglish writer17551829-10-10United Kingdom
Maria KoepckeGerman and Peruvian ornithologist1924-05-151971-12-24Germany
Maria WilmanSouth African botanist1867-04-291957-11-09South Africa
Marian FarquharsonNaturalist, women's rights activist1846-07-021912-04-20United Kingdom
Marie Beatrice Schol-SchwarzDutch physopathologist1898-07-121969-07-27Kingdom of the Netherlands
Marie Jean-Eudes TellierReligious Sister and botanist18971978Canada
Marie PrinsSouth African botanist1948South Africa
Marie StopesBritish paleontologist1880-10-151958-10-02United Kingdom
Marie TaylorAmerican botanist19111990-12United States
Marie-Anne LibertBelgian botanist1782-04-071865-01-14Belgium
Marie-Hélène SachetFrench botanist19221986France
Marietta PallisGreek-British ecologist18821963
Marion Delf-SmithBritish botanist1883-01-311980-02-23United Kingdom
Marion E. MoodieCanadian botanist18671958
Marjorie Elizabeth Jane ChandlerEnglish palaeobotanist1897-05-181983-10-01United Kingdom
Mary Agard PocockSouth African phycologist18861977-07-20South Africa
Mary Agnes ChaseAmerican botanical illustrator and botanist1869-04-291963-09-24United States
Mary AlbertsonAmerican botanist1838-06-211914-08-19United States
Mary Ann RobbBotanist18291912
Mary BowermanAmerican botanist1908-01-252005-08-21United States
Mary Elizabeth BarberBritish naturalist, South African biologist1818-01-051899-09-04United Kingdom
Mary Gibson HenryBotanist18841967United States
Mary K. BryanAmerican botanist1877-02-131926United States
Mary Katharine BrandegeeAmerican botanist1844-10-281920-04-03United States
Mary PirieScottish botanist and teacher1822-01-201885-02-08Scotland
Mary Somerset, Duchess of BeaufortEnglish noblewoman, gardener and botanist, died 17151630-12-161715-01-07United Kingdom
Mary Sophie YoungAmerican botanist1872-09-201919United States
Mary Strong ClemensAmerican botanist1873-01-031968-04-13United States
Mary SutherlandForester, botanist18931955New Zealand
Mary Therese Kalin ArroyoNew Zealand botanist1944New Zealand
Mary TindaleBotanist1920-09-192011-03-31
Mary TreatAmerican biologist1830-09-071923-04-11United States
Mary WhartonAmerican botanist1912-10-121991United States
Matilda Cullen KnowlesIrish botanist1864-01-311933-04-27
1933-04-23
Ireland
Matilda SmithBotanical illustrator18541926United Kingdom
Maureen Ann Donnelly1954-08-10
Meenakshi BanerjeeIndian cyanobacteriologistIndia
Mildred Adams FentonAmerican scientist1899-11-141995-12-07United States
Mildred Ester MathiasAmerican botanist1906-09-191995-02-16United States
Miriam Phoebe de VosSouth African botanist19122005South Africa
Monique KeraudrenFrench botanist1928-12-081981-05-25France
Nancy Adamsbotanist and botanical artist1926-05-192007-03-27New Zealand
Nancy Tyson BurbidgeAustralian botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator1912-08-051977-03-04Australia
Naomi FeinbrunBotanist, University Professor19001995-03-08Russian Empire
Romania
Israel
Nélida María BacigalupoArgentinian botanist19242019Argentina
Nellie Adalesa BrownAmerican botanist18761956United States
Nina Avgustinovna AdolfRussian botanist19031951
Nina GolubkovaRussian lichenologist1932-01-282009-08-24Russia
Nora Lilian AlcockPioneering plant pathologist1874-08-181972-03-31
Norah Lillian PenstonBritish botanist and academic administrator1903-08-201974-02-01
Nuncia María TurArgentinian botanist1940Argentina
O.F. Mizgirevabotanist and painter (1908-2000)19082000Soviet Union
Olga FédchenkoRussian botanist1845-10-301921-04-24Russian Empire
Olive Blanche DaviesAustralian botanical artist1884-10-271976Australia
Olive Mary HilliardSouth African botanist1925-07-042022South Africa
Orra White HitchcockAmerican woman botanical artist1796-03-081863-05-26United States
Ottoline LeyserBritish botanist1965-03-07
Pamela S. SoltisAmerican botanist1957-11-13United States
Pamela WoodsBritish botanist1952United Kingdom
Pat WolseleyBotanist1938United Kingdom
Patricia BerjakSouth African botanist1939-12-292015-01-21South Africa
Patricia G. GenselAmerican paleobotanist1944
Paula J. Rudallbotanist1954
Paula PrykeBritish botanist1960-04-29United Kingdom
Pauline Dy PhonCambodian botanist (1933-2010)19332010-05-21Cambodia
Pauline LadigesAustralian botanist1948-01-19
1948
Australia
Phoebe LankesterLankester [née Pope], Phebe [pseud. Penelope] (1825–1900), writer on botany and health1825-04-10
1825
1900-04-09
1900
Phyllis ClinchIrish botanist1901-09-121984-10-19
Pippa GreenwoodBritish botanistUnited Kingdom
Princess Theresa of BavariaBavarian princess, scientist, philanthropist1850-11-121925-12-19
1925-09-19
Germany
Priscilla Susan BuryBritish botanist1799-01-121872-03-08United Kingdom
Rana Ellen MunnsAustralian botanist
Rica EricksonAustralian historian and botanist1908-08-102009-09-08Australia
Rosa Olga SansomTeacher, museum director, botanist, broadcaster, writer19001989New Zealand
Roseli Ocampo-FriedmannFilipino-American microbiologist and botanist1937-11-232005-09-04United States
Rosette Batarda FernandesPortuguese scientist1916-01-102005-05-28Portugal
Rosmarie HoneggerSwiss lichenologist1947Switzerland
Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferrisbotanist1895-04-131978-06-30United States
Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuireBotanist18931950United States
Ruth F. Allenplant pathologist18791963United States
Ruth Kiewbotanist1946
Ruth MasonNew Zealand botanist1913-11-07
1913
1990-05-14
1990
New Zealand
Ruth PatrickAmerican botanist and limnologist1907-11-262013-09-23United States
Sandra Knappbotanist1956-12-09
1956
Sara Plummer LemmonAmerican botanist1836-09-031923United States
Sarah Bowdich LeeEnglish naturalist and author1791-09-101856-09-22United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sarah DarwinEnglish botanist1964-04-14United Kingdom
Sarah Martha BakerBritish botanist1887-06-041917-05-29United Kingdom
Shirley SherwoodBotanist1933-07-01United Kingdom
Shakti M. Gupta[1] Ethnobotanist1927Lahore, Pakistan
Shiu-Ying HuChinese botanist1908-02-262012-05-22People's Republic of China
Silvia BlumenfeldArgentine mycologist1949Argentina
Silvia ZenariItalian botanist1895-03-311956-06-30Italy
Siri von ReisAmerican botanist and writer1931-02-102021-08-03United States
Sophia EckersonAmerican botanist1954-07-19United States
Sophie Charlotte Duckerbotanist (1909-2004)19092004
Stella Grace Maisie CarrAustralian ecologist1912-02-261988-09-09Australia
Stella Ross-CraigBritish artist1906-03-192006-02-06
Susan Carter HolmesBritish botanist1933United Kingdom
Susanne RennerGerman botanist1954-10-05
1954
Germany
Suzanne Mary ProberAustralian botanist1964Australia
Thekla ResvollNorwegian botanist1871-05-221948-06-14Norway
Theodora Lisle PrankerdBritish botanist1878-06-211939-11-11United Kingdom
Thistle Yolette HarrisAustralian botanist1902-07-291990-07-05
Tiiu KullEstonian botanist1958-08-26
Tracy L. KahnAmerican botanistUnited States
Ülle KukkEstonian botanist and conservationist1937-11-18
Ursula Katharine DuncanBritish botanist1910-09-171985-01-27United Kingdom
Vandika Ervandovna AvetisyanArmenian botanist and mycologist 1928-10-5Armenia
Soviet Union
Vera Scarth-JohnsonBotanist19121999
Victoria Ann FunkAmerican botanist1947-11-262019-10-22United States
Violet DicksonEnglish botanist, writer, and Orientalist1896-09-031991-01-04
Vivi Laurent-TäckholmSwedish botanist1898-01-071978Sweden
Vivienne Cassie CooperNew Zealand planktologist and botanist1926-09-29New Zealand
Wanda Kirkbride FarrUS botanist1895-01-091983United States
Wanda ZabłockaPolish botanist, phytopathologist, mycologist1900-12-201978-11-30Poland
Winifred BrenchleyBritish botanist1883-08-101953-10-27
Winifred CurtisBritish–Australian botanist1905-06-152005-10-14Australia
Winifred Mary PageBritish botanist18871965-3-9
Ynes MexiaMexican botanist1870-05-241938-07-12United States
Mexico
Yolande Dalpébotanist1948
Zinaida BotschantzevaRussian botanist and embryologist, professor1907-08-101973-08-17Soviet Union

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gupta, Shakti M. Plant myths and traditions in India.. 1971-01-01. Brill. Leiden. 157094. English.