Olga Lakela Explained

Olga Korhoven Lakela (March 11, 1890 – May 17, 1980) was a Finnish-American botanist and educator noted for identifying many species in the genera Heuchera and Tiarella.^{[1] [2]} She emigrated to the United States from Finland in 1906.^[3] Lakela received her doctorate in botany from the University of Minnesota in 1932.^[3] Lakela founded the herbarium at the University of Minnesota Duluth, which is named after her, and worked there until 1935.^{[3] [4] [5]} After her retirement from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 1958,^{[1] [3]} she was the curator of the University of South Florida's herbarium from 1960^[3] until her retirement there in 1973.^{[6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lakela, Olga Korhoven (1890-1980) . 26 September 2018 . JSTOR. en .
2. Web site: Tropicos Person - Lakela, Olga Korhoven . www.tropicos.org . 26 September 2018.
3. News: Ryan . James . Nature Is Her Mother . Tampa Bay Times . September 4, 1966 . St. Petersburg, FL . 170, 171 . July 7, 2022 . Newspapers.com.
4. News: Northland Uncovered: Olga Lakela Herbarium - Fox21Online . 26 September 2018 . Fox21Online . 4 April 2017. The herbarium is named after Olga Lakela, a Finnish immigrant who moved to Duluth when she was a girl at the turn of the 20th century.... She founded the Herbarium in 1935. Olga went on to become the first head of the Biology Department back in the 1940s when Duluth State Teachers College became the University of Minnesota-Duluth..
5. Web site: Olga Lakela Herbarium . Swenson College of Science and Engineering . 26 September 2018 . en . 6 July 2016. Approximately half of our specimens were collected by Dr. Lakela, and her extensive work in St. Louis and Lake counties of Minnesota is summarized in her book, A Flora of Northeastern Minnesota (1965, University of Minnesota Press)..
6. News: Olga Lakela, Was Curator of Herbarium at USF . Tampa Bay Times . May 19, 1980 . St. Petersburg, FL . 19 . July 6, 2022 . Newspapers.com.
7. Web site: Overview of the University of South Florida Herbarium. Franck, Alan R.. June 2018. Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida.