Famous Botanists

• Burbank, Luther

  Creator of the Burbank potato

• Carver, George Washington

  America's great peanut innovator

• Douglas, David

  The Scottish botanist whose 19th centry exploits led to the Douglas-fir

• Linnaeus, Carl

  The botanist who was the "father of taxonomy"

• Theophrastus

  Ancient Greek who began the study of plants

See: Index by Occupation