The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) is a

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organization formed in 1935 to "foster, encourage, and promote education and research in the field of

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, to include those areas and fields of study that contribute to and bear upon taxonomy and herbaria", according to its bylaws. It is incorporated in the state of

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, and its office is at the

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, Department of Botany. The ASPT publishes a quarterly botanical journal, '' Systematic Botany'', and the irregular series ''Systematic Botany Monographs''. The society gives annual awards for excellence in Botany. The Society gives the

Asa Gray Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His ''Darwiniana'' was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually excl ...

Award for "outstanding accomplishments pertinent to the goals of the Society," and the

Peter Raven Peter Hamilton Raven (born June 13, 1936) is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Early life On June 13, 1936, Raven was born in Shanghai, China ...

Award to a botanist who has "made exceptional efforts at outreach to non-scientists."

Asa Gray Awardees

*2021: Elizabeth Kellogg *2020:Jeff Doyle *2019: Lucinda McDade *2018: Vicki Funk *2017:

Michael Donoghue Michael Donoghue is an American evolutionary biologist, currently the Sterling Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, and also a published author. He was also previously the Glaser Distinguished Visiting Professor at ...

*2016: Peter F. Stevens *2015: Warren Lambert Wagner *2014:Alan Smith *2013:Bruce Baldwin *2012:Noel and Patricia Holmgren *2011: Walter S. Judd *2010:

Harold E. Robinson Harold Ernest Robinson (May 22, 1932 – December 17, 2020) was an American botanist and entomologist. Career Robinson's specialty was the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and the bryophytes. He has named or described over 2,800 new species and s ...

*2009:Alan Graham *2008: William R. Anderson *2007: Scott A. Mori *2006:

Douglas E. Soltis Douglas Soltis is a Distinguished Professor in the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics, (Soltis lab.) Florida Museum of Natural History and Department of Biology at the University of Florida. His research interests are in ...

and Pamela S. Soltis *2005: Grady Webster *2004:John Beaman *2003: Beryl B. Simpson *2002:

Natalie Uhl Natalie Whitford Uhl (1919–2017) was an American botanistIPNI: Natalie Whitf ...

*2001: Robert F. Thorne *2000: William T. Stearn *1999: Tod Stuessey *1998: Ghillean Prance *1997: Daniel J. Crawford *1996:

*1995: Jerzy Rzedowski *1994: Hugh H. Iltis *1993:

Sherwin Carlquist Sherwin John Carlquist FMLS (July 7, 1930 - December 1, 2021) was an American botanist and photographer. Education He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 and a Ph.D. in botany in 1956, also at ...

*1992:

Albert Charles Smith Albert Charles Smith (April 5, 1906 – May 23, 1999) was an American botanist who served as director of the National Museum of Natural History and Arnold Arboretum and was the former president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. Life S ...

*1991: Billie L. Turner *1990:

Warren H. Wagner Warren Herbert Wagner Jr. (August 29, 1920 – January 8, 2000) was an eminent American botanist who was trained at Berkeley with E.B. Copeland and lived most of his professional career in Michigan. History Wagner was instructed in the ways o ...

*1989: Rupert C. Barneby *1988: Charles B. Heiser *1987: Reed C. Rollins *1986:

Lincoln Constance Lincoln Constance (February 16, 1909 – June 11, 2001) was an American botanist and administrator at the University of California, Berkeley. Constance worked with Marion S. Cave for over twenty years to identify how many chromosomes different mem ...

*1985:

Arthur Cronquist Arthur John Cronquist (March 19, 1919 – March 22, 1992) was an American biologist, botanist and a specialist on Compositae. He is considered one of the most influential botanists of the 20th century, largely due to his formulation of the Cr ...

*1984:

Rogers McVaugh Rogers McVaugh (May 30, 1909 – September 24, 2009) was a research professor of botany and the UNC Herbarium's curator of Mexican plants. He was also Adjunct Research Scientist of the Hunt Institute in Carnegie Mellon University and a Prof ...

Peter Raven Awardees

*2021: Tanisha Williams *2020: Susan Pell *2019: Lena Struwe *2018: Chris Martine *2017: Hans Walter Lack *2016: Lynn G. Clark *2015: John Weirsema *2014:Ken Cameron *2013 *2012 *2011: Robbin C. Moran *2010: Barney Lipscomb *2009:

Sandra Knapp Sandra Diane Knapp (born 1956) is an American-born botanist. She is a merit researcher of the Plants Division of the Natural History Museum, London and from 2018 was the president of the Linnean Society of London. While working at the Natural ...

*2008: W. Hardy Eshbaugh *2007: John T. Mickel *2006: Art Kruckeberg *2005:

Alan W. Meerow Alan W. Meerow is an American botanist, born in New York City in 1952. He specializes in the taxonomy of the family Amaryllidaceae and the horticulture of palms and tropical ornamental plants. He also works on the population genetics and mole ...

*2004: David J. Mabberley *2003: Frederick W. Case *2002: Charles Heiser *2001: Richard C. Harris *2000:Peter Raven

References

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ASPT home page

''Systematic Botany''

''Systematic Botany Monographs''
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