This week’s post is plants in our database named after people – mostly naturalists but some patrons, friends, & family members too. Enjoy the pictures & see how many of these plants or people you know.

• John (March 23, 1699 – September 22, 1777)  & William (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) Bartram
• Samuel Botsford Buckley (May 9, 1809 – February 18, 1884)
• Mark Catesby (March 24, 1683 – December 23, 1749)
• John Clayton (1694/5 – 1773)
• DeWitt Clinton (March 2, 1769 – February 11, 1828)
• Peter Collinson (January 1694 – August 11, 1768)
• Moses Ashley Curtis (May 11, 1808 – April 10, 1872)
• Allen Hierome Curtiss (September 2, 1845 – September 1, 1907)
• Alfred Cuthbert (1858 – 1932)
• John Fraser (October 14, 1750 – April 26, 1811)
• Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888)
• Christian Gottlieb Ludwig (April 30, 1709 – May 7, 1773)
• John Lyon (1765–14 September, 1814)

Photography by Ken Borgfeldt, Cindy Carpenter, David Heavner, Richard Holzman,  Betty Jones, Mary Knierim, Penny Longhurst, Jim Poling, Lucy Prim, Randy Richardson & Joe Standaert. Click on any picture to zoom & enter the slide show.