Elmer Ottis Wooton (19 September 1865 – 1945), was an American botanist, professor of
chemistry and
botany
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at
New Mexico State College
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from 1890 to 1911, assistant curator at the
National Herbarium in 1910, and employed by the
US Department of Agriculture
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from 1911 to 1935. The species ''Astragalus wootonii'' and ''Cheilanthes wootonii'' were named after him.
Notes
Sources
* Allred, Kelly (2008
"E. O. Wooton: New Mexico's Pioneer Botanist"''Rangelands'' 30(5): pp. 11–17
Spellenberg, Ricard (7 May 1997) "The NMSU Herbarium (NMC)" ''The New Mexico Botanist'' Issue number 5*
American botanists
People from New Mexico
People from Kokomo, Indiana
1865 births
1945 deaths
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