Charlotte Goodding Reeder (born Charlotte Olive Goodding; July 26, 1916 – October 23, 2009) was an American agrostologist who was active in identifying the flora of Arizona. The abbreviation C.O.Goodd. has also been used.

Biography

Reeder was born on July 26, 1916 in

Flagstaff, Arizona Flagstaff ( ) is a city in, and the county seat of, Coconino County, Arizona, Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2019, the city's estimated population was 75,038. Flagstaff's combined metropolitan area has ...

. She was the daughter of accomplished botanist

Leslie Newton Goodding Leslie Newton Goodding (1880–1967) was an American botanist who was considered an expert in the flora of the Southwestern United States. Biography Goodding attended the University of Wyoming from 1899 to 1903, learning botany under Aven Nelson ...

. Picking up from her father, she began to help him identify species in Arizona. She attended the University of Wyoming, earning her M.A. in 1939 for her thesis on '' Muhlenbergia''.Reeder, Charlotte Olive (1916-)
/ref> She then took classes at Oregon State University where she met

John R. Reeder John Raymond Reeder (July 29, 1914 – February 8, 2009) was an American agrostologist who was active in identifying the grasses of New Guinea, Wyoming, and Arizona. Biography Reeder was born on a farm in Charlotte, Michigan on July 29, 1914. ...

. The two married in 1941. With her husband conscripted in the military during World War II, Reeder went to work at the Smithsonian Institution under Agnes Chase. Upon John's return from the war, he took a post at Yale University and the couple moved to Connecticut. Reeder continued her studies on ''Muhlenbergia'', titling herself "Rogue Botanist". The Reeders moved to Wyoming in 1968, where they collaborated on work at the Rocky Mountain Herbarium of the University of Wyoming. In 1976, they moved to Tucson, Arizona to research at the University of Arizona Herbarium. After a severe car accident, the two decided to retire.

Legacy

The genus ''

Reederochloa ''Distichlis'' is a genus of American and Australian plants in the grass family.Bell, H. L. & J. T. Columbus. 2008. Proposal for an expanded ''Distichlis'' (Poaceae, Chloridoideae): Support from molecular, morphological, and anatomical characters ...

'' and species '' Muhlenbergia reederorum'' were named in honor of the Reeders by Thomas Robert Soderstrom.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reeder, Charlotte Goodding 1916 births 2009 deaths American botanists Agrostologists