George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (1860s–1943) was an inventor, teacher, botanist, and mycologist (a…
A trip to Fire Island with Peggy Hopkins
While we might not get to summer with the likes of Madonna…
Good grief, Charles Geyer
Charles (Karl) A. Geyer was a pioneer botanical collector of the Northwestern…
Art Cronquist's Hat
If you spend time looking at herbarium specimens collected by Arthur Cronquist,…
Becoming a mountain woman
Marie Mooar spent a lot of time in the wilds of western…
Three Thousand Miles up the Amazon
At the age of 61, Ynés Mexía embarked on the adventure of…
The Lemmons: Partners in Botany
Sara Plummer met John Gill Lemmon in 1876 when he came to…
Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood was a self-taught Canadian-American botanist. After graduating from high school…
Fabian Michelangeli's field trip to Cuba, November 2013
A recent expedition to eastern Cuba took three Cuban colleagues and me…
Augustine Henry
Augustine Henry was one of the first and most prolific western botanists to collect in Central China,…
Jeanne Baret
CollectorsWomen in ScienceExpeditions
Jeanne Baret was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but…