List of women botanists

This is a list of women botanists.

Name  | Description  | Birth date  | Death date  | Country  | Image

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A.S. Losina-Losinskaja | Soviet botanist (1903–1958)  | 1903  | 1958  | Russian Empire
Soviet Union |
Adeline Ames | American mycologist  | 1879  | 1976  | United States |
Adriana Hoffmann | Chilean botanist  | 1940-01-29  | 2022-03-20  | 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 of Great Britain and Ireland |
Agnes Quirk | American botanist  | 1884  | 1974  | United States |
Aime Mäemets | Estonian scientist  | 1930-09-29  | 1996-07-17  |  |
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 |
Alice Faber Tryon | American botanist  | 1920  | 2009  | United States |
Alice Haskins | American botanist  | 1880-04-24  | 1971-10-16  | United States |
Alice Lounsberry | Botanist  | 1872  | 1949  | United States |
Alice Pegler | South African botanist  | 1861-07-21  | 1929-06-17  | South Africa |
Alicia Amherst | English horticulturist and author of the first scholarly account of English gardening history.  | 1865  | 1941  |  |
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 |
Almut Gitter Jones | German-American botanist and plant taxonomist  | 1923-09-08  | 2013-10-12  | United States |
Amalie Dietrich | German naturalist  | 1821-05-26  | 1891-03-09  | Germany |
Amelia Griffiths | amateur phycologist  | 1768  | 1858  |  |
Amy Jacot Guillarmod | South African botanist  | 1911-05-23  | 1992  | South Africa |
Angela Piskernik | botanist and conservationist  | 1886-08-27  | 1967-12-23  | Slovenia |
Angélica M. Arambarri | botanist and mycologist  | 1945-04-22  | 2012-12-11  | Argentina |
Angie Beckwith | American phytopathologist  | 1881-01-27  | 1964-10-02  | United States |
Ann Bishop | British biologist  | 1899-12-19  | 1990-05-07  |  |
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 Maurizio | Swiss botanist  | 1900-11-26  | 1993-07-24  | Switzerland |
Anna Murray Vail | American botanist  | 1863-01-07  | 1955-12-18  | United States |
Anna Russell | Russell [née Worsley], Anna (1807–1876), botanist  | 1807  | 1876  |  |
Anna Schchian | Russian botanist  | 1905-07-09  | 1990-05-15  | Soviet Union |
Anna Vickers | British phycologist  | 1852-06-28  | 1906-08-01  | United Kingdom |
Anna Weber-Van Bosse | Marine biologist  | 1852-03-27  | 1942-10-29  | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Lady Anne Brewis | Botanist  | 1911-03-26  | 2002  | United Kingdom  |
Anne Catherine Hof Blinks | botanist  | 1903  | 1995  | United States |
Anne Elizabeth Ball | Irish botanist, algologist, and botanical illustrator  | 1808  | 1872  | Ireland |
Annie Gravatt | American phytopathologist  | 1894  | 1986  | United States |
Annie Lorrain Smith | British lichenologist  | 1854-10-23  | 1937-09-07  | United Kingdom |
Annie Morrill Smith | American botanist  | 1856-02-13  | 1946  | United States |
Anthea Phillipps | Botanist  | 1956-06-03  |  | Malaysia |
Antonina Borissova | Russian botanist  | 1903  | 1970  | Soviet Union |
Antonina Pojarkova | expert on caucasian flora  | 1897  | 1980  | Soviet Union |
Arabella Elizabeth Roupell | British artist  | 1817-03-23  | 1914-07-31  | South Africa |
Astrid Cleve | Botanist, geologist, chemist  | 1875-01-22  | 1968-04-08  | Sweden |
Audrey Brooks | British botanist and plant pathologist  | 1933  | 2018  | United Kingdom |
Augusta Vera Duthie | South African botanist and mycologist (1881-1963)  | 1881-07-18  | 1963-08-08  | South Africa |
Avishag Zahavi | Israeli biologist  | 1922  | 2021-10-31  | Israel |
Barbara G. Briggs | Botanist  | 1934-06-15
1934-11-22
1934  |  | Australia |
Barbara Pickersgill | British botanist  | 1940  |  |  |
Beatrice Willard | botanist  | 1927-12-19
1925  | 2003  | United States |
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 |
Bertha Stoneman |  | 1866-08-18  | 1943-04-30  | United States |
Berthe Hoola van Nooten | Dutch botanist  | 1817-10-12  | 1892-04-12  | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Blanca Renée Arrillaga | Uruguayan scientist  | 1917  | 2011  | Argentina |
Bonnie C. Templeton | American botanist  | 1906-10-23  | 2002  | United States |
Carlotta Case Hall | American botanist  | 1880  | 1949  | United States |
Carmen Lelia Cristóbal | Botanist  | 1932  |  | Argentina |
Carmen Pujals | Argentinian botanist  | 1916  | 2003  | 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 |
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 plant collector  | 1874-06-27  | 1956-03-17  | United States |
Charlotte Elliott | American plant physiologist  | 1883  | 1974  |  |
Charlotte Grace O'Brien | Irish writer  | 1845  | 1909  |  |
Charlotte Nichols Saunders Horner | American botanist  | 1823-07-05  | 1906-07-18  | United States |
Chen Hang | Botanist  | 1931  |  |  |
Chicita F. Culberson | American lichenologist  | 1931-11-01  | 2023-03-05  | United States |
Christine Buisman | Dutch botanist  | 1900-03-22  | 1936-03-27  | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Christine Marie Berkhout | Dutch biologist  | 1893  | 1932  | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Christine H. Sophie Kabuye | Ugandan ethnobotanist  | 1938  |  | Uganda and Kenya |
Clara Eaton Cummings | American cryptogamic botanist  | 1855-07-13  | 1906-12-28  | United States |
Clara Ethelinda Larter | English botanist  | 1847-06-27  | 1936-05-13  | United Kingdom |
Clara H. Hasse | American botanist  | 1880  | 1926-10-10  | United States |
Clarissa Tracy | American botanist  | 1818-11-12  | 1905-11-13  | United States |
Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi | Botanist, aristocrat  | 1760  | 1830  |  |
Cleofé Caldéron | Botanist  | 1929-10-26  | 2007-03-19  | Argentina |
Constance Endicott Hartt | American biologist  | 1900-11-02  | 1984-12-21  | United States |
Cythna Letty | South African botanical artist  | 1895-01-01  | 1985-05-03  | South Africa |
Daphne Osborne | Botanist  | 1930-03-07  | 2006-06-16  | United Kingdom |
Deborah M. Pearsall | American paleoethnobotany  | 1950  |  | United States |
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 Adlington Cadbury | British botanist and company director  | 1892-10-14  | 1987-08-21  | United Kingdom |
Dorothy Popenoe | English botanist and archaeologist  | 1899-06
1899  | 1932  | United Kingdom |
Éanna ni Lamhna | Entomologist, botanist, ecologist, radio and television presenter, author  | 1950  |  |  |
Edith Coleman | Australian naturalist  | 1874  | 1951  | Australia |
Edith Gertrude Schwartz | botanist (1877-1971)  | 1877-10-05  | 1971-07-26  | United States |
Edith Katherine Cash | American mycologist  | 1890-10-04  | 1992-04-06  |  |
Edith Layard Stephens | South African botanist  | 1884  | 1966  | South Africa |
Edna H. Fawcett | American botanist  | 1879  | 1960  | United States |
Edna P. Plumstead | Paleobotanist  | 1903-09-15  | 1989-09-23  |  |
Effie Almira Southworth | American botanist  | 1860  | 1947  |  |
Eileen Adelaide Bruce | British botanist (1905–1955)  | 1905  | 1955  | United Kingdom |
Elaine Bullard | British botanist  | 1915  | 2011  |  |
Eleanor Marion Bennett | botanist  | 1942  |  | Australia |
Eleanor Mary Reid | British palaeobotanist  | 1860-11-13  | 1953-09-28  | United Kingdom |
Eleanor Vachell | Welsh botanist  | 1879-01-08
1879  | 1948-12-06
1948  | United Kingdom |
Elena Paunero Ruiz | Spanish botanist  | 1906-09-21  | 2009-03-09  | Spain |
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  | 1743-06-14  | 1782-04-15  | Sweden |
Elisabeth Gantt | American botanist  | 1934  |  | United States |
Elisabeth Schiemann | botanist, geneticist  | 1881-08-15  | 1972-01-03  | Germany |
Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess | Austrian cytologist, phycologist and lichenologist  | 1917-01-28  | 2001-04-26  | Austria |
Elise Hofmann | Austrian paleobotanist  | 1889-02-05  | 1955-03-14  | Austria |
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 |
Eliza Standerwick Gregory | Botanist  | 1840-12-06  | 1932-03-22  | United Kingdom |
Elizabeth A. Widjaja | botanist  | 1951  |  |  |
Elizabeth Blackwell | Scottish botanical illustrator and author  | 1707  | 1758  | United Kingdom |
Elizabeth Coleman White | Blueberry botanist  | 1871-10-05  | 1954-11-11  | United States |
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton | American botanist  | 1857-01-09  | 1934-02-25  | United States |
Elizabeth Jill Cowley | British botanist  | 1940  |  | United Kingdom |
Elizabeth Lomax | English botanist  | 1810-02-22  | 1895-03-16  | United Kingdom |
Elizabeth McClintock | Botanist  | 1912  | 2004  | United States |
Elizabeth Stack (nee Jones)  | Collector of ferns and mosses  | 1829  | 1919  | New Zealand  |
Elizabeth Twining | English botanical illustrator  | 1805  | 1889  | United Kingdom |
Elke Mackenzie | British-American lichenologist  | 1911-09-11  | 1990-01-18  | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Ellen Hutchins | Irish botanist  | 1785  | 1815  | Ireland |
Ellen Schulz Quillin | American botanist, author and museum director  | 1892-06-16  | 1970-05-06  | United States |
Ellen Willmott | English horticulturist  | 1858-08-19  | 1934-09-27  | United Kingdom |
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 Conway | British botanist and phycologist  | 1902
1902-03-15  | 1992
1992-07-22  | United Kingdom |
Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen | South African botanist  | 1912  | 2006  | South Africa |
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 |
Elzada Clover | American botanist  | 1896  | 1980  | United States |
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 Cole | American botanist  | 1845-01-23  | 1910-04-25  | United States |
Emma Laughlin |  | 1866  | 1962  |  |
Emma Lucy Braun | American botanist  | 1889-04-19  | 1971-03-05  | United States |
Enid Lucy Robertson | Australian botanist and conservationist  | 1925-11-20  | 2016-07-10  | Australia |  |
Estella Leopold | American botanist  | 1927-01-08  | 2024-02-25  | United States |
Esther Orozco | Mexican biologist, researcher and politician  | 1945-04-25  |  | Mexico |
Ethel Anson Peckham | botanist (1879-1965)  | 1879  | 1965  |  |
Ethel Bailey Higgins | American botanist  | 1866  | 1963  | United States |
Ethel de Fraine | British botanist  | 1879  | 1918  | United Kingdom |
Ethel Sargant | Botanist  | 1863-10-28  | 1918-01-16  | United Kingdom |
Ethel Thomas | English botanist  | 1876  | 1944  |  |
Ethel Zoe Bailey | American botanist (1889-1983)  | 1889-11-17  | 1983  | United States |
Eva Mameli Calvino  | Botanist  | 1886-02-12  | 1978-03-31  | Italy |
Eva Schönbeck-Temesy | botanist (1930-2011)  | 1930  | 2011  |  |
Eve Palmer | South African non-fiction writer and botanist  | 1916-02-20  | 1998  | South Africa |
Evelyn Booth | Irish botanist  | 1897-10-30  | 1988  | Ireland |
Flora Wambaugh Patterson | American mycologist  | 1847  | 1928  | United States |
Florence Hedges | American botanist  | 1878-08-24  | 1956-12-17  | United States |
Florence Meier Chase | American botanist  | 1902  | 1978-05-06  | United States |
Florence Woolward | British botanical illustrator and botanist  | 1854  | 1936-01-03  | United Kingdom |
Frances Acton | British botanist, archaeologist and artist (1794-1881)  | 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 |
Frances Theodora Parsons | Botanist  | 1861-12-05  | 1952-06-10  | United States |
Françoise Ardré | French botanist  | 1931  | 2010  | France |
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 |
Gertrud Dahlgren | botanist (1931-2009)  | 1931  | 2009  |  |
Gertrude Bacon | Writer, Aeronaut, Botanist  | 1874-04-19  | 1949-12-22  |  |
Gertrude Jekyll | garden designer, artist  | 1843-11-29  | 1932-12-08  | United Kingdom |
Gertrude Simmons Burlingham | early 20th-century American mycologist  | 1872-04-21  | 1952-01-11  | United States |
Gloria Galeano Garcés | Colombian scientist  | 1958-04-22  | 2016-03-23  | Colombia |
Grace Evelyn Pickford | Biologist  | 1902  | 1986  | United States |
Greta Stevenson | New Zealand mycologist  | 1911-06-10  | 1990-12-18  | New Zealand |
Grethe Rytter Hasle | Norwegian scientist  | 1920-01-03  | 2013-11-09  | Norway |
Gulielma Lister | Lister, Gulielma (1860–1949), mycologist and naturalist  | 1860-10-28  | 1949-05-18  |  |
Guranda Gvaladze | Georgian botanist  | 1932-06-23  | 2020-01-24  |  |
Gwendoline Joyce Lewis | British-born South African botanist (1909–1967)  | 1909  | 1967  | United Kingdom
South Africa |
Haide-Ene Rebassoo | Estonian botanist  | 1935-01-25  | 2018-12-27  |  |
Hanna Margońska | Botanist, Taxonomist  | 1968  |  | Poland |
Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen | Norwegian biologist  | 1873-09-11  | 1943-03-13  | Norway |
Hannah Caroline Aase | botanist (1883-1980)  | 1883-07-12  | 1980-11-23  |  |
Harriet Creighton | American geneticist  | 1909-06-27  | 2004-01-09  | United States |
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 |
Hedvig Lovén | Swedish botanist  | 1867  | 1943  | Sweden |
Heidrun Elsbeth Klara Osterwald Hartmann | German botanist  | 1942-08-05
1942  | 2016-07-11  | Germany |
Helen Margaret Gilkey | American mycologist  | 1886  | 1972  | United States |
Helen Morgenthau Fox | Botanist and author of gardening books  | 1884-05-27  | 1974-01-13  | United States |
Helen Porter | British botanist  | 1899-11-10  | 1987-12-07  |  |
Helen Sharsmith | American botanist  | 1905-08-26  | 1982-11-10  | United States |
Helena Krzemieniewska | Polish botanist and microbiologist  | 1878  | 1966  | Poland |
Helena Perpenti | Italian scientist (1764–1846)  | 1764  | 1846  | Italy |
Hélène Durand | botanist (1883-1934)  | 1883-08  | 1934-08  |  |
Helia Bravo | Mexican botanist  | 1901-09-30  | 2001-09-26  | Mexico |
Henrietta Hooker | American botanist  | 1851-12-12  | 1929-05-13  | United States |
Hildur Krog | Norwegian botanist  | 1922-03-22  | 2014-08-25  | Norway |
Hiltje Maas-van de Kamer | Dutch botanist  | 1941-12-09  |  | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Ilma Grace Stone | Australian botanist  | 1913  | 2001  |  |
Inez Clare Verdoorn | South African botanist  | 1896-06-15  | 1989  | South Africa |
Inez M. Haring | US botanist  | 1875  | 1968  | USA  |
Inger Nordal | Norwegian botanist  | 1944-08-11  |  | 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  | Australia |
Isabella Abbott | Educator, ethnobotanist  | 1919-06-20  | 2010-10-28  | United States |
Isabella Preston | botanist (1881-1965)  | 1881  | 1965  |  |
Isobel Wylie Hutchison | Scottish Arctic traveller and botanist  | 1889  | 1982  |  |
Janaki Ammal | Indian botanist  | 1897  | 1984-02  | India |
Jane W. Loudon | English science fiction writer  | 1807-08-19  | 1858-07-13  | United Kingdom |
Jane Colden | Botanist  | 1724-03-27  | 1766-03-10  | United States |
Jane Glazebrook | American botanist  |  |  |  |
Jane Ingham | English botanist and scientific translator  | 1897-08-15  | 1982-09-10  | United Kingdom |
Janet Russell Perkins | American botanist and explorer (1853–1933)  | 1853  | 1933  | United States |
Janet Sprent | British botanist  | 1934  |  | United Kingdom |
Janice C. Beatley | American botanist and ecologist  | 1919-03-18  | 1987-11-14  | United States |
Jantina Tammes | Dutch botanist and geneticist  | 1871-06-23  | 1947-09-20  | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Jayne V. Armstrong | British botanist  |  |  | United Kingdom |
Jean Finnegan | Australian botanist  |  |  |  |
Jean Galbraith | Australian botanist and writer  | 1906-03-28  | 1999-01-02  | Australia |
Jean White-Haney | Australian botanist  | 1877-03-11  | 1952-10-21  |  |
Jeanne Baré | French explorer  | 1740-07-27  | 1807-08-05  | France |
Jenny Hempel | Danish botanist  | 1882-02-19  | 1975-02-13  | Denmark  |
Joan Cribb | Australian botanist  | 1930-04-14  | 2013-10-17  | Australia |
Joan Dingley | New Zealand mycologist  | 1916-05-14  | 2008-01-01  | New Zealand |
Lady Joan Margaret Legge | British botanist  | 1885-02-21  | 1939-07-04  |  |
Joanne Chory | American plant biologist  | 1955-03-19  | 2024-11-12  | United States |
Johanna Westerdijk | Dutch plant pathologist  | 1883-01-04  | 1961-11-15  | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Josephine Kablick | Czech scientist  | 1787  | 1863  | Austrian Empire |
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  |  | Australia |
Julia Morton | Botanist, Author  | 1912-04-25  | 1996-09-10  | United States |
Julia Wilmotte Henshaw | Canadian botanist and writer  | 1869  | 1937  | Canada |
Julie F. Barcelona | Filipino botanist  | 1972  |  | Philippines |
Juliet Wege | Botanist  | 1971  |  | Australia |
Juliette de Bairacli Levy | English herbalist and veterinarian | 1912  | 2009  | United Kingdom |
Kate Crooks | Canadian botanist  | 1833  | 1871  | Canada |
Kate Sessions | American botanist and landscape architect  | 1857-11-08  | 1940-03-24  | United States |
Katharina Perch-Nielsen | Swiss orienteer  | 1940-10-26  |  | Switzerland |
Käthe Hoffmann | German botanist (1883–1931)  | 1883  | 1931  | German Empire
Weimar Republic |
Katherine Esau | German-American botanist  | 1898-04-03  | 1997-06-04  | United States |
Katherine Kane | Irish botanist  | 1811-03-18  | 1886-02-25  | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Katherine Warington | British botanist  | 1897-09-05  | 1993-07-03  |  |
Kathleen Anne Kron | biology professor; studies Ericaceae  | 1956  |  |  |
Kathleen Basford | British botanist  | 1916-09-06  | 1998-12-20  |  |
Kathleen Bever Blackburn | British botanist  | 1892  | 1968  | United Kingdom |
Kathleen Maisey Curtis | Mycologist  | 1892-08-15  | 1994-09-05  | New Zealand |
Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker | British phycologist  | 1901  | 1957  |  |
Ladema Langdon |  | 1893-01-05  | 1977-04  |  |
Lady Anne Monson | English botanist and collector of plants and insects  | 1726  | 1776  |  |
Leia Scheinvar | Mexican botanist  | 1954  |  | Mexico |
Lela Viola Barton | Botanist, specializing in seeds.  | 1901-11-14  | 1967-07-31  | United States |
Lena Clemmons Artz | American botanist  | 1891-08-03  | 1976-06-02  | United States |
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  | United Kingdom |
Lily May Perry | Canadian botanist (1895–1992)  | 1895-01-05  | 1992-03-11  | United States |
Lily Newton | botanist (1893-1981)  | 1893-01-26  | 1981  | United Kingdom |
Lois Brako | American botanist  | 1957-07-25  |  | United States |
Louisa Grace Fortescue (née Butler), Lady Clermont  | Irish botanist; discoverer of Lady Clermont's Spleenwort, Asplenium x clermontiae | 1816-07-18  | 1896-11-8  | Ireland |
Louise Guthrie | South African botanist (1879-1966)  | 1879-10-10  | 1966-02-20  | South Africa |
Lucia McCulloch | American botanist  | 1873-02-26  | 1955-02-10  | United States |
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  | 1914-09  | 1987-01-13  | Soviet Union |
Lumina Cotton Riddle Smyth | American botanist  | 1871-03-18  | 1939-02-02  | USA |
Luisa Eugenia Navas | Chilean botanist  | 1920-07-27  | 2020-11-18  | Chile |
Lula Pace | First female Baylor University professor with a PhD  | 1868  | 1925  | United States
Lynn G. Clark | American botanist  | 1956  |  | United States |
Lynn Margulis | American evolutionary biologist  | 1938-03-05  | 2011-11-22  | United States |
Maevia Noemí Correa | Argentinian botanist  | 1914-02-14  | 2005-04-18  | Argentina |
Máirin de Valéra | Irish botanist  | 1912  | 1984  |  |
Margaret A. Dix | British botanist  | 1939-05-19  | 2025-06-02  | United Kingdom |
Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi | Nigerian botanist and environmental archaeologist  | 1939-09-24  |  | Nigeria |
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 |
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 Sibella Brown | Canadian bryologist  | 1866  | 1961  | Canada |
Margaret Levyns | South AFrican botanist  | 1890-10-24  | 1975-11-11  | South Africa |
Margery Claire Carlson | botanist (1892-1985)  | 1892-11-21  | 1985-07-05  | United States |
Margot Williams | American botanist  |  |  | United States |
Mari Reitalu | Estonian botanist  | 1941-02-10  |  |  |
Maria Fadiman | Botanist  | 1969-07-04  |  | United States |
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  | South Africa |
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  | Kingdom of the 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 |
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 | South African phycologist  | 1886  | 1977-07-20  | South Africa |
Mary Agnes Chase | American botanical illustrator and botanist  | 1869-04-29  | 1963-09-24  | United States |
Mary Albertson | American botanist  | 1838-06-21  | 1914-08-19  | United States |
Mary Ann Robb | Botanist  | 1829  | 1912  |  |
Mary Bowerman | American botanist  | 1908-01-25  | 2005-08-21  | United States |
Mary Elizabeth Barber | British naturalist, South African biologist  | 1818-01-05  | 1899-09-04  | United Kingdom |
Mary Gibson Henry | Botanist  | 1884  | 1967  | United States |
Mary K. Bryan | American botanist  | 1877-02-13  | 1926  | United States |
Mary Katharine Brandegee | American botanist  | 1844-10-28  | 1920-04-03  | United States
Mary Pirie | Scottish botanist and teacher  | 1822-01-20  | 1885-02-08  | Scotland |
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort | English noblewoman, gardener and botanist, died 1715  | 1630-12-16  | 1715-01-07  | United Kingdom |
Mary Sophie Young | American botanist  | 1872-09-20  | 1919  | United States |
Mary Strong Clemens | American botanist  | 1873-01-03  | 1968-04-13  | United States |
Mary Sutherland | Forester, botanist  | 1893  | 1955  | New Zealand |
Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo | New Zealand botanist  | 1944  |  | New Zealand |
Mary Tindale | Botanist  | 1920-09-19  | 2011-03-31  |  |
Mary Treat | American biologist  | 1830-09-07  | 1923-04-11  | United States |
Mary Wharton | American botanist  | 1912-10-12  | 1991  | United States |
Matilda Cullen Knowles | Irish botanist  | 1864-01-31  | 1933-04-27
1933-04-23  | Ireland |
Matilda Smith | Botanical illustrator  | 1854  | 1926  | United Kingdom |
Maureen Ann Donnelly |  | 1954-08-10  |  |  |
Meenakshi Banerjee | Indian cyanobacteriologist  |  |  | India |
Mildred Adams Fenton | American scientist  | 1899-11-14  | 1995-12-07  | United States |
Mildred Ester Mathias | American botanist  | 1906-09-19  | 1995-02-16  | United States |
Miriam Phoebe de Vos | South African botanist  | 1912  | 2005  | South Africa |
Monique Keraudren | French botanist  | 1928-12-08  | 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  | Australia |
Naomi Feinbrun | Botanist, University Professor  | 1900  | 1995-03-08  | Russian Empire
Romania
Israel |
Nélida María Bacigalupo | Argentinian botanist  | 1924  | 2019  | Argentina |
Nellie Adalesa Brown | American botanist  | 1876  | 1956  | United States |
Nina Avgustinovna Adolf | Russian botanist  | 1903  | 1951  |  |
Nina Golubkova | Russian lichenologist  | 1932-01-28  | 2009-08-24  | Russia |
Nora Lilian Alcock | Pioneering plant pathologist  | 1874-08-18  | 1972-03-31  |  |
Norah Lillian Penston | British botanist and academic administrator  | 1903-08-20  | 1974-02-01  |  |
Nuncia María Tur | Argentinian botanist  | 1940  |  | Argentina |
O.F. Mizgireva | botanist and painter (1908-2000)  | 1908  | 2000  | Soviet Union |
Olga Fédchenko | Russian botanist  | 1845-10-30  | 1921-04-24  | Russian Empire |
Olive Blanche Davies | Australian botanical artist  | 1884-10-27  | 1976  | Australia |
Olive Mary Hilliard | South African botanist  | 1925-07-04  | 2022  | South Africa |
Orra White Hitchcock | American woman botanical artist  | 1796-03-08  | 1863-05-26  | United States |
Ottoline Leyser | British botanist  | 1965-03-07  |  |  |
Pamela S. Soltis | American botanist  | 1957-11-13  |  | United States |
Pamela Woods | British botanist  | 1952  |  | United Kingdom |
Pat Wolseley | Botanist  | 1938  |  | United Kingdom |
Patricia Berjak | South African botanist  | 1939-12-29  | 2015-01-21  | South Africa |
Patricia G. Gensel | American paleobotanist  | 1944  |  |  |
Paula J. Rudall | botanist  | 1954  |  |  |
Paula Pryke | British botanist  | 1960-04-29  |  | United Kingdom |
Pauline Dy Phon | Cambodian botanist (1933-2010)  | 1933  | 2010-05-21  | Cambodia |
Pauline Ladiges | Australian botanist  | 1948-01-19
1948  |  | Australia |
Phoebe Lankester | Lankester [née Pope], Phebe [pseud. Penelope] (1825–1900), writer on botany and health  | 1825-04-10
1825  | 1900-04-09
1900  |  |
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 |
Rosette Batarda Fernandes | Portuguese scientist  | 1916-01-10  | 2005-05-28  | Portugal |
Rosmarie Honegger | Swiss lichenologist  | 1947  |  | Switzerland |
Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris | botanist  | 1895-04-13  | 1978-06-30  | United States |
Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire | Botanist  | 1893  | 1950  | United States |
Ruth F. Allen | plant pathologist  | 1879  | 1963  | United States |
Ruth Kiew | botanist  | 1946  |  |  |
Ruth Mason | New Zealand botanist  | 1913-11-07
1913  | 1990-05-14
1990  | New Zealand |
Ruth Patrick | American botanist and limnologist  | 1907-11-26  | 2013-09-23  | United States |
Sandra Knapp | botanist  | 1956-12-09
1956  |  |  |
Sara Plummer Lemmon | American botanist  | 1836-09-03  | 1923  | United States |
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 |
Sarah Martha Baker | British botanist  | 1887-06-04  | 1917-05-29  | United Kingdom |
Sarah Paxon Moore Cooper | American botanist and botanical collector  | 1824-09-18  | 1908-03-13  | United States |
Shirley Sherwood | Botanist  | 1933-07-01  |  | United Kingdom |
Shakti M. Gupta[1] | Ethnobotanist  | 1927  |  | Lahore, Pakistan |
Shiu-Ying Hu | Chinese botanist  | 1908-02-26  | 2012-05-22  | People's Republic of China |
Silvia Blumenfeld | Argentine mycologist  | 1949  |  | Argentina |
Silvia Zenari | Italian botanist  | 1895-03-31  | 1956-06-30  | Italy |
Siri von Reis | American botanist and writer  | 1931-02-10  | 2021-08-03  | United States |
Sophia Eckerson | American botanist  |  | 1954-07-19  | United States |
Sophie Charlotte Ducker | botanist (1909-2004)  | 1909  | 2004  |  |
Stella Grace Maisie Carr | Australian ecologist  | 1912-02-26  | 1988-09-09  | Australia |
Stella Ross-Craig | British artist  | 1906-03-19  | 2006-02-06  |  |
Susan Carter Holmes | British botanist  | 1933  |  | United Kingdom |
Susanne Renner | German botanist  | 1954-10-05  |  | Germany |
Suzanne Mary Prober | Australian botanist  | 1964  |  | Australia |
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 |
Ülle Kukk | Estonian botanist and conservationist  | 1937-11-18  |  |  |
Ursula Katharine Duncan | British botanist  | 1910-09-17  | 1985-01-27  | United Kingdom |
Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan | Armenian botanist and mycologist  | 1928-10-5  |  | Armenia
Soviet Union |
Vera Scarth-Johnson | Botanist  | 1912  | 1999  |  |
Victoria Ann Funk | American botanist  | 1947-11-26  | 2019-10-22  | United States |
Violet Dickson | English botanist, writer, and Orientalist  | 1896-09-03  | 1991-01-04  |  |
Vivi Laurent-Täckholm | Swedish botanist  | 1898-01-07  | 1978  | Sweden |
Vivienne Cassie Cooper | New Zealand planktologist and botanist  | 1926-09-29  | 2021-07-05  | New Zealand |
Wanda Kirkbride Farr | US botanist  | 1895-01-09  | 1983  | United States |
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 |
Winifred Mary Page | British botanist  | 1887  | 1965-3-9  |  |
Ynes Mexia | Mexican botanist  | 1870-05-24  | 1938-07-12  | United States
Mexico |
Yolande Dalpé | botanist  | 1948  |  |  |
Zinaida Botschantzeva | Russian botanist and embryologist, professor  | 1907-08-10  | 1973-08-17  | Soviet Union |

## See also

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* List of botanists
* Lists of women

## References

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1. ^ Gupta, Shakti M (1971-01-01). Plant myths and traditions in India. Leiden: Brill. OCLC 157094.

## External links

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* Women in Botany \- Interactive database, containing biographical and bibliographical information on more than 10.000 women in all fields of botany