Stanley Larson Welsh (born 1928) is an American botanist. He has worked as professor of integrative biology at

Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d ...

for 44 years and was the founding curator of that university's

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (calle ...

, which is named after him. His fields are North American and Tahitian

flora Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring ( indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. ...

, especially the

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

Astragalus ''Astragalus'' is a large genus of over 3,000 species of herbs and small shrubs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae and the subfamily Faboideae. It is the largest genus of plants in terms of described species. The genus is native to tempe ...

Oxytropis ''Oxytropis'' is a genus of plants in the legume family. It is one of three genera of plants known as locoweeds, and are notorious for being toxic to grazing animals. The other locoweed genus is the closely related ''Astragalus''. There are ab ...

and

Atriplex ''Atriplex'' () is a plant genus of about 250 species, known by the common names of saltbush and orache (; also spelled orach). It belongs to the subfamily Chenopodioideae of the family Amaranthaceae ''s.l.''. The genus is quite variable and ...

Selected publications

* stanley larson Welsh; sherel Goodrich. 1980. ''Miscellaneous Plant Novelties from Alaska, Nevada, and Utah''. Great Basin Naturalist 40:78-88

Books

* 1960. ''Legumes of the north-central states: Galegeae''. Ed. Iowa Agricultural & Home Economics Experiment Station. 249 pp. * 2003. ''North American Species of Atriplex Linnaeus (Chenopodiaceae): A Taxonomic Revision''. * nephi duane Atwood, sherel Goodrich, stanley larson Welsh. 2007. ''A Utah Flora''. Ed. Brigham Young University.

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* http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearch?id=11539-1&query_type=by_id&output_format=object_view 21st-century American botanists Living people 1928 births Brigham Young University faculty {{US-botanist-stub