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Born August 15, 1796 • New York City • New York
Died March 10, 1873 (aged 76) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study North America • plant

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John Torrey
Torrey pine
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“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
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Edward Murray East
American scientist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Title page of Flora Boreali-Americana by Andre Michaux (1746-1802), printed in 1803,
André Michaux
French botanist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
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Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
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George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
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Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist
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Katherine Esau
American botanist
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Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
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John Bartram
American naturalist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist

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