# List of women botanists

This is a list of women botanists.
| Name | Description | Birth date | Death date | Country |
| A.S. Losina-Losinskaja | Soviet botanist (1903–1958) | 1903 | 1958 | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
| Adeline Ames | American mycologist | 1879 | 1976 | United States |
| Adriana Hoffmann | Chilean botanist | 1940-01-29 | 2022-03-20 | Chile |
| Adrienne Clarke | Australian botanist | 1938-01-06 | | |
| Agnes Arber | British botanist | 1879-02-23 | 1960-03-22 | United Kingdom |
| Agnes Block | Dutch botanist and art collector | 1629-10-29 | 1704-04-20 | Netherlands |
| Agnes Ibbetson | British physiologist | 1757 | 1823-02 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Agnes Quirk | American botanist | 1884 | 1974 | United States |
| Aime Mäemets | Estonian scientist | 1930-09-29 | 1996-07-17 | |
| Aimée Antoinette Camus | French botanist | 1879-05-01 | 1965-04-17 | France |
| Aino Henssen | German lichenologist | 1925-04-12 | 2011-08-29 | Germany |
| Alice Eastwood | Canadian American botanist | 1859-01-19 | 1953-10-30 | Canada United States |
| Alice Faber Tryon | American botanist | 1920 | 2009 | United States |
| Alice Haskins | American botanist | 1880-04-24 | 1971-10-16 | United States |
| Alice Lounsberry | Botanist | 1872 | 1949 | United States |
| Alice Pegler | South African botanist | 1861-07-21 | 1929-06-17 | South Africa |
| Alicia Amherst | English horticulturist and author of the first scholarly account of English gardening history. | 1865 | 1941 | |
| Alicia Lourteig | Argentine botanist | 1913-12-17 | 2003-07-30 | Argentina |
| Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps | American educator and botanist | 1793-07-15 | 1884-07-15 | United States |
| Almut Gitter Jones | German-American botanist and plant taxonomist | 1923-09-08 | 2013-10-12 | United States |
| Amalie Dietrich | German naturalist | 1821-05-26 | 1891-03-09 | Germany |
| Amelia Griffiths | amateur phycologist | 1768 | 1858 | |
| Amy Jacot Guillarmod | South African botanist | 1911-05-23 | 1992 | South Africa |
| Angela Piskernik | botanist and conservationist | 1886-08-27 | 1967-12-23 | Slovenia |
| Angélica M. Arambarri | botanist and mycologist | 1945-04-22 | 2012-12-11 | Argentina |
| Angie Beckwith | American phytopathologist | 1881-01-27 | 1964-10-02 | United States |
| Ann Bishop | British biologist | 1899-12-19 | 1990-05-07 | |
| Ann Marvet | Estonian botanist | 1939-04-21 | | |
| Anna Amelia Obermeyer | South African botanist | 1907-07-30 | 2001-10-10 | British Empire South Africa |
| Anna Atkins | English botanist and photographer | 1799-03-16 | 1871-06-09 | United Kingdom |
| Anna Maria Walker | Botanist in Ceylon | 1778 | 1852-09-08 | |
| Anna Maurizio | Swiss botanist | 1900-11-26 | 1993-07-24 | Switzerland |
| Anna Murray Vail | American botanist | 1863-01-07 | 1955-12-18 | United States |
| Anna Russell | Russell [née Worsley], Anna (1807–1876), botanist | 1807 | 1876 | |
| Anna Schchian | Russian botanist | 1905-07-09 | 1990-05-15 | Soviet Union |
| Anna Vickers | British phycologist | 1852-06-28 | 1906-08-01 | United Kingdom |
| Anna Weber-Van Bosse | Marine biologist | 1852-03-27 | 1942-10-29 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Lady Anne Brewis | Botanist | 1911-03-26 | 2002 | United Kingdom |
| Anne Catherine Hof Blinks | botanist | 1903 | 1995 | United States |
| Anne Elizabeth Ball | Irish botanist, algologist, and botanical illustrator | 1808 | 1872 | Ireland |
| Annie Gravatt | American phytopathologist | 1894 | 1986 | United States |
| Annie Lorrain Smith | British lichenologist | 1854-10-23 | 1937-09-07 | United Kingdom |
| Annie Morrill Smith | American botanist | 1856-02-13 | 1946 | United States |
| Anthea Phillipps | Botanist | 1956-06-03 | | Malaysia |
| Antonina Borissova | Russian botanist | 1903 | 1970 | Soviet Union |
| Antonina Pojarkova | expert on caucasian flora | 1897 | 1980 | Soviet Union |
| Arabella Elizabeth Roupell | British artist | 1817-03-23 | 1914-07-31 | South Africa |
| Astrid Cleve | Botanist, geologist, chemist | 1875-01-22 | 1968-04-08 | Sweden |
| Audrey Brooks | British botanist and plant pathologist | 1933 | 2018 | United Kingdom |
| Augusta Vera Duthie | South African botanist and mycologist (1881-1963) | 1881-07-18 | 1963-08-08 | South Africa |
| Avishag Zahavi | Israeli biologist | 1922 | 2021-10-31 | Israel |
| Barbara G. Briggs | Botanist | 1934-06-15 1934-11-22 1934 | | Australia |
| Barbara Pickersgill | British botanist | 1940 | | |
| Beatrice Willard | botanist | 1927-12-19 1925 | 2003 | United States |
| Bernadette Cozart | American gardener and botanist | 1949-05-17 | 2009-07-27 | |
| Bernice Giduz Schubert | American botanist | 1913-10-06 | 2000-08-14 | United States |
| Bertha Stoneman | | 1866-08-18 | 1943-04-30 | United States |
| Berthe Hoola van Nooten | Dutch botanist | 1817-10-12 | 1892-04-12 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Blanca Renée Arrillaga | Uruguayan scientist | 1917 | 2011 | Argentina |
| Bonnie C. Templeton | American botanist | 1906-10-23 | 2002 | United States |
| Carlotta Case Hall | American botanist | 1880 | 1949 | United States |
| Carmen Lelia Cristóbal | Botanist | 1932 | | Argentina |
| Carmen Pujals | Argentinian botanist | 1916 | 2003 | Argentina |
| Carrie Derick | Canadian botanist and geneticist | 1862-01-14 | 1941-11-10 | Canada |
| Catharine Furbish | American botanist | 1834-05-09 | 1931-12-06 | United States |
| Catharine Parr Traill | English-Canadian author | 1802-01-09 | 1899-08-29 | Canada |
| Catherine Gage | Irish botanist | 1815-05-18 | 1892-02-16 | |
| Cecile Hulse Matschat | American botanist and geographer | 1895 | 1976 | |
| Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis | American plant collector | 1874-06-27 | 1956-03-17 | United States |
| Charlotte Elliott | American plant physiologist | 1883 | 1974 | |
| Charlotte Grace O'Brien | Irish writer | 1845 | 1909 | |
| Chen Hang | Botanist | 1931 | | |
| Chicita F. Culberson | American lichenologist | 1931-11-01 | | United States |
| Christine Buisman | Dutch botanist | 1900-03-22 | 1936-03-27 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Christine Marie Berkhout | Dutch biologist | 1893 | 1932 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Christine H. Sophie Kabuye | Ugandan ethnobotanist | 1938 | | Uganda and Kenya |
| Clara Eaton Cummings | American cryptogamic botanist | 1855-07-13 | 1906-12-28 | United States |
| Clara Ethelinda Larter | English botanist | 1847-06-27 | 1936-05-13 | United Kingdom |
| Clara H. Hasse | American botanist | 1880 | 1926-10-10 | United States |
| Clarissa Tracy | American botanist | 1818-11-12 | 1905-11-13 | United States |
| Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi | Botanist, aristocrat | 1760 | 1830 | |
| Cleofé Caldéron | Botanist | 1929-10-26 | 2007-03-19 | Argentina |
| Constance Endicott Hartt | American biologist | 1900-11-02 | 1984-12-21 | United States |
| Cythna Letty | South African botanical artist | 1895-01-01 | 1985-05-03 | South Africa |
| Daphne Osborne | Botanist | 1930-03-07 | 2006-06-16 | United Kingdom |
| Deborah M. Pearsall | American paleoethnobotany | 1950 | | United States |
| Dianne Edwards | Palaeobotanist | 1942 | | United Kingdom |
| Doris Löve | Swedish-Icelandic botanist (1918–2000) | 1918-01-02 | 2000-02-25 | Sweden |
| Dorothea Pertz | Pertz, Dorothea Frances Matilda [Dora] (1859–1939), botanist | 1859-03-14 | 1939-03-06 | |
| Dorothy Adlington Cadbury | British botanist and company director | 1892-10-14 | 1987-08-21 | United Kingdom |
| Dorothy Popenoe | English botanist and archaeologist | 1899-06 1899 | 1932 | United Kingdom |
| Éanna ni Lamhna | Entomologist, botanist, ecologist, radio and television presenter, author | 1950 | | |
| Edith Coleman | Australian naturalist | 1874 | 1951 | Australia |
| Edith Gertrude Schwartz | botanist (1877-1971) | 1877-10-05 | 1971-07-26 | United States |
| Edith Katherine Cash | American mycologist | 1890-10-04 | 1992-04-06 | |
| Edith Layard Stephens | South African botanist | 1884 | 1966 | South Africa |
| Edna H. Fawcett | American botanist | 1879 | 1960 | United States |
| Edna P. Plumstead | Paleobotanist | 1903-09-15 | 1989-09-23 | |
| Effie Almira Southworth | American botanist | 1860 | 1947 | |
| Eileen Adelaide Bruce | British botanist (1905–1955) | 1905 | 1955 | United Kingdom |
| Elaine Bullard | British botanist | 1915 | 2011 | |
| Eleanor Marion Bennett | botanist | 1942 | | Australia |
| Eleanor Mary Reid | British palaeobotanist | 1860-11-13 | 1953-09-28 | United Kingdom |
| Eleanor Vachell | Welsh botanist | 1879-01-08 1879 | 1948-12-06 1948 | United Kingdom |
| Elena Paunero Ruiz | Spanish botanist | 1906-09-21 | 2009-03-09 | Spain |
| Elisa Caroline Bommer | Belgian botanist | 1832-01-19 | 1910-01-17 | |
| Elisa de Vilmorin | French horticulturalist | 1826-05-03 | 1868-08-05 | France |
| Elisabeth Christina von Linné | Swedish botanist | 1743-06-14 | 1782-04-15 | Sweden |
| Elisabeth Gantt | American botanist | 1934 | | United States |
| Elisabeth Schiemann | botanist, geneticist | 1881-08-15 | 1972-01-03 | Germany |
| Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess | Austrian cytologist, phycologist and lichenologist | 1917-01-28 | 2001-04-26 | Austria |
| Elise Hofmann | Austrian paleobotanist | 1889-02-05 | 1955-03-14 | Austria |
| Eliza Amy Hodgson | Botanist | 1888-10-10 | 1983-01-07 | New Zealand |
| Eliza Ann Youmans | American botanist | 1826-12-17 | 1914-09-27 | United States |
| Eliza Standerwick Gregory | Botanist | 1840-12-06 | 1932-03-22 | United Kingdom |
| Elizabeth A. Widjaja | botanist | 1951 | | |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | Scottish botanical illustrator and author | 1707 | 1758 | United Kingdom |
| Elizabeth Coleman White | Blueberry botanist | 1871-10-05 | 1954-11-11 | United States |
| Elizabeth Gertrude Britton | American botanist | 1857-01-09 | 1934-02-25 | United States |
| Elizabeth Jill Cowley | British botanist | 1950 | | United Kingdom |
| Elizabeth Lomax | English botanist | 1810-02-22 | 1895-03-16 | United Kingdom |
| Elizabeth McClintock | Botanist | 1912 | 2004 | United States |
| Elizabeth Stack (nee Jones) | Collector of ferns and mosses | 1829 | 1919 | New Zealand |
| Elizabeth Twining | English botanical illustrator | 1805 | 1889 | United Kingdom |
| Elke Mackenzie | British-American lichenologist | 1911-09-11 | 1990-01-18 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Ellen Hutchins | Irish botanist | 1785 | 1815 | Ireland |
| Ellen Schulz Quillin | American botanist, author and museum director | 1892-06-16 | 1970-05-06 | United States |
| Ellen Willmott | English horticulturist | 1858-08-19 | 1934-09-27 | United Kingdom |
| Ellen Wright Blackwell | Writer, botanist | 1864-10-07 | 1952-02-24 | New Zealand |
| Elsa Beata Bunge | Botanist | 1734-04-18 | 1819-01-19 | Sweden |
| Elsa Nyholm | Swedish botanist | 1911 | 2002 | Sweden |
| Elsie Conway | British botanist and phycologist | 1902 1902-03-15 | 1992 1992-07-22 | United Kingdom |
| Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen | South African botanist | 1912 | 2006 | South Africa |
| Elsie M. Burrows | British Botanist | 1913 | 1986 | United Kingdom |
| Elsie Mary Griffin | Botany teacher, community organisation administrator | 1884-11-01 | 1968-05-03 | New Zealand |
| Elsie Maud Wakefield | British mycologist | 1886-07-03 | 1972-06-17 | United Kingdom |
| Elva Lawton | American botanist | 1896-04-03 | 1993-02-03 | United States |
| Elzada Clover | American botanist | 1896 | 1980 | United States |
| Emilie Snethlage | Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist | 1868-04-13 | 1929-11-25 | Brazil Germany |
| Emily Collins | British botanist | 1858 | 1945 | United Kingdom |
| Emily Dix | Paleobotanist | 1904-05-21 | 1972 | United Kingdom |
| Emma Cole | American botanist | 1845-01-23 | 1910-04-25 | United States |
| Emma Laughlin | | 1866 | 1962 | |
| Emma Lucy Braun | American botanist | 1889-04-19 | 1971-03-05 | United States |
| Enid Lucy Robertson | Australian botanist and conservationist | 1925-11-20 | 2016-07-10 | Australia |
| Estella Leopold | American botanist | 1927-01-08 | 2024-02-25 | United States |
| Esther Orozco | Mexican biologist, researcher and politician | 1945-04-25 | | Mexico |
| Ethel Anson Peckham | botanist (1879-1965) | 1879 | 1965 | |
| Ethel Bailey Higgins | American botanist | 1866 | 1963 | United States |
| Ethel de Fraine | British botanist | 1879 | 1918 | United Kingdom |
| Ethel Sargant | Botanist | 1863-10-28 | 1918-01-16 | United Kingdom |
| Ethel Thomas | English botanist | 1876 | 1944 | |
| Ethel Zoe Bailey | American botanist (1889-1983) | 1889-11-17 | 1983 | United States |
| Eva Mameli Calvino | Botanist | 1886-02-12 | 1978-03-31 | Italy |
| Eva Schönbeck-Temesy | botanist (1930-2011) | 1930 | 2011 | |
| Eve Palmer | South African non-fiction writer and botanist | 1916-02-20 | 1998 | South Africa |
| Evelyn Booth | Irish botanist | 1897-10-30 | 1988 | Ireland |
| Flora Wambaugh Patterson | American mycologist | 1847 | 1928 | United States |
| Florence Hedges | American botanist | 1878-08-24 | 1956-12-17 | United States |
| Florence Meier Chase | American botanist | 1902 | 1978-05-06 | United States |
| Florence Woolward | British botanical illustrator and botanist | 1854 | 1936-01-03 | United Kingdom |
| Frances Acton | British botanist, archaeologist and artist (1794-1881) | 1794-07-07 | 1881-01-24 | United Kingdom |
| Frances Margaret Leighton | South African botanist | 1909-03-08 | 2006-01-08 | Union of South Africa South Africa Australia |
| Frances Meehan Latterell | Botanist | 1920-12-21 | 2008-11-05 | United States |
| Frances Theodora Parsons | Botanist | 1861-12-05 | 1952-06-10 | United States |
| Françoise Ardré | French botanist | 1931 | 2010 | France |
| Gabriele Rabel | Austrian botanist | 1880 | 1963 | Austria |
| Gabrielle Howard | British botanist | 1876-10-03 | 1930-08-18 | United Kingdom |
| Georgia Mason | Botanist | 1910-03-16 | 2007-10-08 | United States |
| Gertrud Dahlgren | botanist (1931-2009) | 1931 | 2009 | |
| Gertrude Bacon | Writer, Aeronaut, Botanist | 1874-04-19 | 1949-12-22 | |
| Gertrude Jekyll | garden designer, artist | 1843-11-29 | 1932-12-08 | United Kingdom |
| Gertrude Simmons Burlingham | early 20th-century American mycologist | 1872-04-21 | 1952-01-11 | United States |
| Gloria Galeano Garcés | Colombian scientist | 1958-04-22 | 2016-03-23 | Colombia |
| Grace Evelyn Pickford | Biologist | 1902 | 1986 | United States |
| Greta Stevenson | New Zealand mycologist | 1911-06-10 | 1990-12-18 | New Zealand |
| Grethe Rytter Hasle | Norwegian scientist | 1920-01-03 | 2013-11-09 | Norway |
| Gulielma Lister | Lister, Gulielma (1860–1949), mycologist and naturalist | 1860-10-28 | 1949-05-18 | |
| Guranda Gvaladze | Georgian botanist | 1932-06-23 | 2020-01-24 | |
| Gwendoline Joyce Lewis | British-born South African botanist (1909–1967) | 1909 | 1967 | United Kingdom South Africa |
| Haide-Ene Rebassoo | Estonian botanist | 1935-01-25 | | |
| Hanna Margońska | Botanist, Taxonomist | 1968 | | Poland |
| Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen | Norwegian biologist | 1873-09-11 | 1943-03-13 | Norway |
| Hannah Caroline Aase | botanist (1883-1980) | 1883-07-12 | 1980-11-23 | |
| Harriet Creighton | American geneticist | 1909-06-27 | 2004-01-09 | United States |
| Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus | South African botanist (1877-1970) | 1877-07-31 | 1970-04-05 | British Empire Union of South Africa South Africa |
| Hazel Marguerite Schmoll | American botanist (1890–1990) | 1890-08-23 | 1990-01-31 | United States |
| Hedvig Lovén | Swedish botanist | 1867 | 1943 | Sweden |
| Heidrun Elsbeth Klara Osterwald Hartmann | German botanist | 1942-08-05 1942 | 2016-07-11 | Germany |
| Helen Margaret Gilkey | American mycologist | 1886 | 1972 | United States |
| Helen Morgenthau Fox | Botanist and author of gardening books | 1884-05-27 | 1974-01-13 | United States |
| Helen Porter | British botanist | 1899-11-10 | 1987-12-07 | |
| Helen Sharsmith | American botanist | 1905-08-26 | 1982-11-10 | United States |
| Helena Krzemieniewska | Polish botanist and microbiologist | 1878 | 1966 | Poland |
| Helena Perpenti | Italian scientist (1764–1846) | 1764 | 1846 | Italy |
| Hélène Durand | botanist (1883-1934) | 1883-08 | 1934-08 | |
| Helia Bravo | Mexican botanist | 1901-09-30 | 2001-09-26 | Mexico |
| Henrietta Hooker | American botanist | 1851-12-12 | 1929-05-13 | United States |
| Hildur Krog | Norwegian botanist | 1922-03-22 | 2014-08-25 | Norway |
| Hiltje Maas-van de Kamer | Dutch botanist | 1941-12-09 | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Ilma Grace Stone | Australian botanist | 1913 | 2001 | |
| Inez Clare Verdoorn | South African botanist | 1896-06-15 | 1989 | South Africa |
| Inez M. Haring | US botanist | 1875 | 1968 | USA |
| Inger Nordal | Norwegian botanist | 1944-08-11 | | Norway |
| Irene Manton | British botanist | 1904-04-17 | 1988-05-13 | United Kingdom |
| Irina Grudzinskaya | Russian botanist | 1920 | 2011 | |
| Isabel Clifton Cookson | Australian botanist | 1893-12-25 | 1973-07-01 | Australia |
| Isabella Abbott | Educator, ethnobotanist | 1919-06-20 | 2010-10-28 | United States |
| Isabella Preston | botanist (1881-1965) | 1881 | 1965 | |
| Isobel Wylie Hutchison | Scottish Arctic traveller and botanist | 1889 | 1982 | |
| Janaki Ammal | Indian botanist | 1897 | 1984-02 | India |
| Jane W. Loudon | English science fiction writer | 1807-08-19 | 1858-07-13 | United Kingdom |
| Jane Colden | Botanist | 1724-03-27 | 1766-03-10 | United States |
| Jane Glazebrook | American botanist | | | |
| Jane Ingham | English botanist and scientific translator | 1897-08-15 | 1982-09-10 | United Kingdom |
| Janet Russell Perkins | American botanist and explorer (1853–1933) | 1853 | 1933 | United States |
| Janet Sprent | British botanist | 1934 | | United Kingdom |
| Janice C. Beatley | American botanist and ecologist | 1919-03-18 | 1987-11-14 | United States |
| Jantina Tammes | Dutch botanist and geneticist | 1871-06-23 | 1947-09-20 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Jayne V. Armstrong | British botanist | | | United Kingdom |
| Jean Finnegan | Australian botanist | | | |
| Jean Galbraith | Australian botanist and writer | 1906-03-28 | 1999-01-02 | Australia |
| Jean White-Haney | Australian botanist | 1877-03-11 | 1952-10-21 | |
| Jeanne Baré | French explorer | 1740-07-27 | 1807-08-05 | France |
| Jenny Hempel | Danish botanist | 1882-02-19 | 1975-02-13 | Denmark |
| Joan Cribb | Australian botanist | 1930-04-14 | 2013-10-17 | Australia |
| Joan Dingley | New Zealand mycologist | 1916-05-14 | 2008-01-01 | New Zealand |
| Lady Joan Margaret Legge | British botanist | 1885-02-21 | 1939-07-04 | |
| Joanne Chory | American plant biologist | 1955-03-19 | 2024-11-12 | United States |
| Johanna Westerdijk | Dutch plant pathologist | 1883-01-04 | 1961-11-15 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Josephine Kablick | Czech scientist | 1787 | 1863 | Austrian Empire |
| Joyce Lambert | Botanist | 1916-06-23 | 2005-05-04 | |
| Joyce Winifred Vickery | Australian botanist | 1908-12-15 | 1979-05-29 | |
| Judith Gay West | Australian botanist | 1949 | | Australia |
| Julia Morton | Botanist, Author | 1912-04-25 | 1996-09-10 | United States |
| Julia Wilmotte Henshaw | Canadian botanist and writer | 1869 | 1937 | Canada |
| Julie F. Barcelona | Filipino botanist | 1972 | | Philippines |
| Juliet Wege | Botanist | 1971 | | Australia |
| Juliette de Bairacli Levy | English herbalist and veterinarian | 1912 | 2009 | United Kingdom |
| Kate Crooks | Canadian botanist | 1833 | 1871 | Canada |
| Kate Sessions | American botanist and landscape architect | 1857-11-08 | 1940-03-24 | United States |
| Katharina Perch-Nielsen | Swiss orienteer | 1940-10-26 | | Switzerland |
| Käthe Hoffmann | German botanist (1883–1931) | 1883 | 1931 | German Empire Weimar Republic |
| Katherine Esau | German-American botanist | 1898-04-03 | 1997-06-04 | United States |
| Katherine Kane | Irish botanist | 1811-03-18 | 1886-02-25 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Katherine Warington | British botanist | 1897-09-05 | 1993-07-03 | |
| Kathleen Anne Kron | biology professor; studies Ericaceae | 1956 | | |
| Kathleen Basford | British botanist | 1916-09-06 | 1998-12-20 | |
| Kathleen Bever Blackburn | British botanist | 1892 | 1968 | United Kingdom |
| Kathleen Maisey Curtis | Mycologist | 1892-08-15 | 1994-09-05 | New Zealand |
| Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker | British phycologist | 1901 | 1957 | |
| Ladema Langdon | | 1893-01-05 | 1977-04 | |
| Lady Anne Monson | English botanist and collector of plants and insects | 1726 | 1776 | |
| Leia Scheinvar | Mexican botanist | 1954 | | Mexico |
| Lela Viola Barton | Botanist, specializing in seeds. | 1901-11-14 | 1967-07-31 | United States |
| Lena Clemmons Artz | American botanist | 1891-08-03 | 1976-06-02 | United States |
| Libby Houston | Botanist | 1941-12-09 | | United Kingdom |
| Liivia Laasimer | Estonian botanist | 1918-06-21 | 1988-02-26 | |
| Lilian Clarke | botanist and teacher | 1866-01-27 | 1934-02-12 | United Kingdom |
| Lilian Gibbs | Botanist | 1870-09-10 | 1925-01-30 | United Kingdom |
| Lilian Snelling | Botanical illustrator | 1879 | 1972-10-12 | United Kingdom |
| Lily May Perry | Canadian botanist (1895–1992) | 1895-01-05 | 1992-03-11 | United States |
| Lily Newton | botanist (1893-1981) | 1893-01-26 | 1981 | United Kingdom |
| Lois Brako | American botanist | 1950-12-05 | | United States |
| Louisa Grace Fortescue (née Butler), Lady Clermont | Irish botanist; discoverer of Lady Clermont's Spleenwort, Asplenium x clermontiae | 1816-07-18 | 1896-11-8 | Ireland |
| Louise Guthrie | South African botanist (1879-1966) | 1879-10-10 | 1966-02-20 | South Africa |
| Lucia McCulloch | American botanist | 1873-02-26 | 1955-02-10 | United States |
| Lucy Beatrice Moore | Botanist, ecologist | 1906-07-14 | 1987-06-09 | New Zealand |
| Lucy Cranwell | New Zealand botanist | 1907-08-07 | 2000-06-08 | New Zealand |
| Ludmila Kuprianova | Russian botanist | 1914-09 | 1987-01-13 | Soviet Union |
| Lumina Cotton Riddle Smyth | American botanist | 1871-03-18 | 1939-02-02 | USA |
| Luisa Eugenia Navas | Chilean botanist | 1920-07-27 | 2020-11-18 | Chile |
| Lula Pace | First female Baylor University professor with a PhD | 1868 | 1925 | United States |
| Lynn G. Clark | American botanist | 1956 | | United States |
| Lynn Margulis | American evolutionary biologist | 1938-03-05 | 2011-11-22 | United States |
| Maevia Noemí Correa | Argentinian botanist | 1914-02-14 | 2005-04-18 | Argentina |
| Máirin de Valéra | Irish botanist | 1912 | 1984 | |
| Margaret A. Dix | British botanist | 1939-05-19 | | United Kingdom |
| Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi | Nigerian botanist and environmental archaeologist | 1939-09-24 | | Nigeria |
| Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland | British duchess | 1715-02-11 | 1785-04-09 | United Kingdom |
| Margaret Clay Ferguson | American botanist | 1863-08-29 | 1951-08-28 | United States |
| Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow | Canadian mycologist | 1923-04-16 | 2008-04-01 | Canada |
| Margaret Gatty | British writer | 1809-06-03 | 1873-10-04 | United Kingdom |
| Margaret Jane Benson | English botanist | 1859 | 1936 | United Kingdom |
| Margaret Sibella Brown | Canadian bryologist | 1866 | 1961 | Canada |
| Margaret Levyns | South AFrican botanist | 1890-10-24 | 1975-11-11 | South Africa |
| Margery Claire Carlson | botanist (1892-1985) | 1892-11-21 | 1985-07-05 | United States |
| Margot Williams | American botanist | | | United States |
| Mari Reitalu | Estonian botanist | 1941-02-10 | | |
| Maria Fadiman | Botanist | 1969-07-04 | | United States |
| Maria Gugelberg von Moos | Swiss botanist | 1836 | 1918 | Switzerland |
| Maria Jacson | English writer | 1755 | 1829-10-10 | United Kingdom |
| Maria Koepcke | German and Peruvian ornithologist | 1924-05-15 | 1971-12-24 | Germany |
| Maria Wilman | South African botanist | 1867-04-29 | 1957-11-09 | South Africa |
| Marian Farquharson | Naturalist, women's rights activist | 1846-07-02 | 1912-04-20 | United Kingdom |
| Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz | Dutch physopathologist | 1898-07-12 | 1969-07-27 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Marie Jean-Eudes Tellier | Religious Sister and botanist | 1897 | 1978 | Canada |
| Marie Prins | South African botanist | 1948 | | South Africa |
| Marie Stopes | British paleontologist | 1880-10-15 | 1958-10-02 | United Kingdom |
| Marie Taylor | American botanist | 1911 | 1990-12 | United States |
| Marie-Anne Libert | Belgian botanist | 1782-04-07 | 1865-01-14 | Belgium |
| Marie-Hélène Sachet | French botanist | 1922 | 1986 | France |
| Marietta Pallis | Greek-British ecologist | 1882 | 1963 | |
| Marion Delf-Smith | British botanist | 1883-01-31 | 1980-02-23 | United Kingdom |
| Marion E. Moodie | Canadian botanist | 1867 | 1958 | |
| Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler | English palaeobotanist | 1897-05-18 | 1983-10-01 | United Kingdom |
| Mary Agard Pocock | South African phycologist | 1886 | 1977-07-20 | South Africa |
| Mary Agnes Chase | American botanical illustrator and botanist | 1869-04-29 | 1963-09-24 | United States |
| Mary Albertson | American botanist | 1838-06-21 | 1914-08-19 | United States |
| Mary Ann Robb | Botanist | 1829 | 1912 | |
| Mary Bowerman | American botanist | 1908-01-25 | 2005-08-21 | United States |
| Mary Elizabeth Barber | British naturalist, South African biologist | 1818-01-05 | 1899-09-04 | United Kingdom |
| Mary Gibson Henry | Botanist | 1884 | 1967 | United States |
| Mary K. Bryan | American botanist | 1877-02-13 | 1926 | United States |
| Mary Katharine Brandegee | American botanist | 1844-10-28 | 1920-04-03 | United States |
| Mary Pirie | Scottish botanist and teacher | 1822-01-20 | 1885-02-08 | Scotland |
| Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort | English noblewoman, gardener and botanist, died 1715 | 1630-12-16 | 1715-01-07 | United Kingdom |
| Mary Sophie Young | American botanist | 1872-09-20 | 1919 | United States |
| Mary Strong Clemens | American botanist | 1873-01-03 | 1968-04-13 | United States |
| Mary Sutherland | Forester, botanist | 1893 | 1955 | New Zealand |
| Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo | New Zealand botanist | 1944 | | New Zealand |
| Mary Tindale | Botanist | 1920-09-19 | 2011-03-31 | |
| Mary Treat | American biologist | 1830-09-07 | 1923-04-11 | United States |
| Mary Wharton | American botanist | 1912-10-12 | 1991 | United States |
| Matilda Cullen Knowles | Irish botanist | 1864-01-31 | 1933-04-27 1933-04-23 | Ireland |
| Matilda Smith | Botanical illustrator | 1854 | 1926 | United Kingdom |
| Maureen Ann Donnelly | | 1954-08-10 | | |
| Meenakshi Banerjee | Indian cyanobacteriologist | | | India |
| Mildred Adams Fenton | American scientist | 1899-11-14 | 1995-12-07 | United States |
| Mildred Ester Mathias | American botanist | 1906-09-19 | 1995-02-16 | United States |
| Miriam Phoebe de Vos | South African botanist | 1912 | 2005 | South Africa |
| Monique Keraudren | French botanist | 1928-12-08 | 1981-05-25 | France |
| Nancy Adams | botanist and botanical artist | 1926-05-19 | 2007-03-27 | New Zealand |
| Nancy Tyson Burbidge | Australian botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator | 1912-08-05 | 1977-03-04 | Australia |
| Naomi Feinbrun | Botanist, University Professor | 1900 | 1995-03-08 | Russian Empire Romania Israel |
| Nélida María Bacigalupo | Argentinian botanist | 1924 | 2019 | Argentina |
| Nellie Adalesa Brown | American botanist | 1876 | 1956 | United States |
| Nina Avgustinovna Adolf | Russian botanist | 1903 | 1951 | |
| Nina Golubkova | Russian lichenologist | 1932-01-28 | 2009-08-24 | Russia |
| Nora Lilian Alcock | Pioneering plant pathologist | 1874-08-18 | 1972-03-31 | |
| Norah Lillian Penston | British botanist and academic administrator | 1903-08-20 | 1974-02-01 | |
| Nuncia María Tur | Argentinian botanist | 1940 | | Argentina |
| O.F. Mizgireva | botanist and painter (1908-2000) | 1908 | 2000 | Soviet Union |
| Olga Fédchenko | Russian botanist | 1845-10-30 | 1921-04-24 | Russian Empire |
| Olive Blanche Davies | Australian botanical artist | 1884-10-27 | 1976 | Australia |
| Olive Mary Hilliard | South African botanist | 1925-07-04 | 2022 | South Africa |
| Orra White Hitchcock | American woman botanical artist | 1796-03-08 | 1863-05-26 | United States |
| Ottoline Leyser | British botanist | 1965-03-07 | | |
| Pamela S. Soltis | American botanist | 1957-11-13 | | United States |
| Pamela Woods | British botanist | 1952 | | United Kingdom |
| Pat Wolseley | Botanist | 1938 | | United Kingdom |
| Patricia Berjak | South African botanist | 1939-12-29 | 2015-01-21 | South Africa |
| Patricia G. Gensel | American paleobotanist | 1944 | | |
| Paula J. Rudall | botanist | 1954 | | |
| Paula Pryke | British botanist | 1960-04-29 | | United Kingdom |
| Pauline Dy Phon | Cambodian botanist (1933-2010) | 1933 | 2010-05-21 | Cambodia |
| Pauline Ladiges | Australian botanist | 1948-01-19 1948 | | Australia |
| Phoebe Lankester | Lankester [née Pope], Phebe [pseud. Penelope] (1825–1900), writer on botany and health | 1825-04-10 1825 | 1900-04-09 1900 | |
| Phyllis Clinch | Irish botanist | 1901-09-12 | 1984-10-19 | |
| Pippa Greenwood | British botanist | | | United Kingdom |
| Princess Theresa of Bavaria | Bavarian princess, scientist, philanthropist | 1850-11-12 | 1925-12-19 1925-09-19 | Germany |
| Priscilla Susan Bury | British botanist | 1799-01-12 | 1872-03-08 | United Kingdom |
| Rana Ellen Munns | Australian botanist | | | |
| Rica Erickson | Australian historian and botanist | 1908-08-10 | 2009-09-08 | Australia |
| Rosa Olga Sansom | Teacher, museum director, botanist, broadcaster, writer | 1900 | 1989 | New Zealand |
| Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann | Filipino-American microbiologist and botanist | 1937-11-23 | 2005-09-04 | United States |
| Rosette Batarda Fernandes | Portuguese scientist | 1916-01-10 | 2005-05-28 | Portugal |
| Rosmarie Honegger | Swiss lichenologist | 1947 | | Switzerland |
| Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris | botanist | 1895-04-13 | 1978-06-30 | United States |
| Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire | Botanist | 1893 | 1950 | United States |
| Ruth F. Allen | plant pathologist | 1879 | 1963 | United States |
| Ruth Kiew | botanist | 1946 | | |
| Ruth Mason | New Zealand botanist | 1913-11-07 1913 | 1990-05-14 1990 | New Zealand |
| Ruth Patrick | American botanist and limnologist | 1907-11-26 | 2013-09-23 | United States |
| Sandra Knapp | botanist | 1956-12-09 1956 | | |
| Sara Plummer Lemmon | American botanist | 1836-09-03 | 1923 | United States |
| Sarah Bowdich Lee | English naturalist and author | 1791-09-10 | 1856-09-22 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Sarah Darwin | English botanist | 1964-04-14 | | United Kingdom |
| Sarah Martha Baker | British botanist | 1887-06-04 | 1917-05-29 | United Kingdom |
| Sarah Paxon Moore Cooper | American botanist and botanical collector | 1824-09-18 | 1908-03-13 | United States |
| Shirley Sherwood | Botanist | 1933-07-01 | | United Kingdom |
| Shakti M. Gupta | Ethnobotanist | 1927 | | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Shiu-Ying Hu | Chinese botanist | 1908-02-26 | 2012-05-22 | People's Republic of China |
| Silvia Blumenfeld | Argentine mycologist | 1949 | | Argentina |
| Silvia Zenari | Italian botanist | 1895-03-31 | 1956-06-30 | Italy |
| Siri von Reis | American botanist and writer | 1931-02-10 | 2021-08-03 | United States |
| Sophia Eckerson | American botanist | | 1954-07-19 | United States |
| Sophie Charlotte Ducker | botanist (1909-2004) | 1909 | 2004 | |
| Stella Grace Maisie Carr | Australian ecologist | 1912-02-26 | 1988-09-09 | Australia |
| Stella Ross-Craig | British artist | 1906-03-19 | 2006-02-06 | |
| Susan Carter Holmes | British botanist | 1933 | | United Kingdom |
| Susanne Renner | German botanist | 1954-10-05 1954 | | Germany |
| Suzanne Mary Prober | Australian botanist | 1964 | | Australia |
| Thekla Resvoll | Norwegian botanist | 1871-05-22 | 1948-06-14 | Norway |
| Theodora Lisle Prankerd | British botanist | 1878-06-21 | 1939-11-11 | United Kingdom |
| Thistle Yolette Harris | Australian botanist | 1902-07-29 | 1990-07-05 | |
| Tiiu Kull | Estonian botanist | 1958-08-26 | | |
| Tracy L. Kahn | American botanist | | | United States |
| Ülle Kukk | Estonian botanist and conservationist | 1937-11-18 | | |
| Ursula Katharine Duncan | British botanist | 1910-09-17 | 1985-01-27 | United Kingdom |
| Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan | Armenian botanist and mycologist | 1928-10-5 | | Armenia Soviet Union |
| Vera Scarth-Johnson | Botanist | 1912 | 1999 | |
| Victoria Ann Funk | American botanist | 1947-11-26 | 2019-10-22 | United States |
| Violet Dickson | English botanist, writer, and Orientalist | 1896-09-03 | 1991-01-04 | |
| Vivi Laurent-Täckholm | Swedish botanist | 1898-01-07 | 1978 | Sweden |
| Vivienne Cassie Cooper | New Zealand planktologist and botanist | 1926-09-29 | 2021-07-05 | New Zealand |
| Wanda Kirkbride Farr | US botanist | 1895-01-09 | 1983 | United States |
| Wanda Zabłocka | Polish botanist, phytopathologist, mycologist | 1900-12-20 | 1978-11-30 | Poland |
| Winifred Brenchley | British botanist | 1883-08-10 | 1953-10-27 | |
| Winifred Curtis | British–Australian botanist | 1905-06-15 | 2005-10-14 | Australia |
| Winifred Mary Page | British botanist | 1887 | 1965-3-9 | |
| Ynes Mexia | Mexican botanist | 1870-05-24 | 1938-07-12 | United States Mexico |
| Yolande Dalpé | botanist | 1948 | | |
| Zinaida Botschantzeva | Russian botanist and embryologist, professor | 1907-08-10 | 1973-08-17 | Soviet Union |