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Sarah Frances Price (1849 – 3 July 1903) was an American botanist and scientific illustrator. Price discovered many rare plants and is credited with classifying a large portion of Kentucky's flora. [1] Also an artist, she drew about fifteen hundred southern plants in pencil and watercolor.
Ann Fowler Rhoads (born 1938 [1]) is an American botanist who worked as a plant pathologist at Morris Arboretum for 36 years, retiring in 2013. [2] [3] She is the co-founder (with Timothy A. Block) of the Pennsylvania Flora Project of Morris Arboretum. [4]
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The society's stated mission is to "promote the understanding, conservation, and sustainable use of plant resources." It works to achieve its mission by organising academic conferences, publishing journals and books on botany, promoting the conservation of plant resources, providing education and training to young botanists, and collaborating with international botanical societies.
Plant specimens may be kept alive, but are more commonly dried and pressed to preserve the quality of the specimen. Plant collecting is an ancient practice with records of a Chinese botanist collecting roses over 5000 years ago. [1] Herbaria are collections of preserved plants samples and their associated data for scientific purposes.
Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden for nearly 50 years from 1722, and wrote the highly popular The Gardeners Dictionary .
Rose Eudora Collom (née Wilson, 20 December 1870 – 26 December 1956) was an American botanist and plant collector. She was the first paid botanist of the Grand Canyon National Park. She discovered several plant species, some of which were named in her honor, and collected numerous plant specimens.
Alexander Garden FRSE FRS (January 1730 – 15 April 1791) was a Scottish physician, botanist and zoologist. The gardenia flower is named after him. He lived for many years in Charleston, South Carolina, using his spare time to study plants and living creatures, and sending specimens to Carl Linnaeus.