Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…Lelong in the Alabama Plant Atlas (floraofalabama.org) which are mainly curated at the USAM Herbarium with duplicates at other institutions. His specimens include many first state records, rediscovered species that…

Francis Joseph LeClair

…the two-hour walk through the two hundred-year-old campus, attendees beheld mature specimens of the older American holly cultivars. Hunt continued by saying that “older plantings here are the work of…

Harley Harris Bartlett

…of Anthropology). “The life of Harley H. Bartlett, which came to its conclusion February 21, 1960, was one of those few in the annals of American botany which even a…

Harry E. Ahles

…a major floristic study of that state. This work resulted in the Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (University of North Carolina Press, 1968), which served as the…

Eugene Bourgeau

…to the Wikipedia page devoted to Bourgeau, he was a native of Brizon, France. “As a young man he worked at the botanical garden in Lyon, where his influences included…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…speech entitled “The Present Devotedness of Genius to the Amusement of the World.”8 In the autumn of 1827 he moved to Claiborne, Alabama ** and worked as a private teacher….

Kenneth Bryan Raper

…and the US National Fungus Collection (BPI). Kenneth Raper is best known for his work on Penicillium, the organism which produces the antibiotic Penicillin, as well as his work on…

Sarah “Sadie” Frances Price

…corresponded with other leading botanists of the time. Her artwork also won her public acclaim. An exhibition of her plant and bird illustrations won first prize at the Chicago World’s…

George Washington Carver

…of Sesamum orientale, Glycine hispida, Cassia tora and Mucuna utilis“) which were named in honor of the collector. Carver kept in contact with his graduate advisor, Louis Pammel, over many…