List of women botanists

This is a list of women botanists.

Name	Description	Birth date	Death date	Country	Image
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		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
Chen Hang	Botanist	1931
Chicita F. Culberson	American lichenologist	1931-11-01		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
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	1950		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		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
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		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		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	1950-12-05		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
Luisa Eugenia Navas	Chilean botanist	1918		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		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
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 1954		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		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

• List of botanists
• Lists of women

References

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

External links

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