page_title: Patricia Kern Holmgren
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Patricia Kern Holmgren / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Lois Brako, Barbara Thiers, Bill Buck, Pat Holmgren &amp; Jim Grimes- Herbarium
context_page_description: Patricia Holmgren is an American botanist. Holmgren's main botanical interests are the flora of the U.S. intermountain west and the genera Tiarella and Thlaspi. Holmgren was the director of the herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden from 1981–2000, and editor of Index Herbariorum from 1974–2008.
context_section_description: After completing her Ph.D. at the University of Washington, Holmgren accepted a job as herbarium specialist at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in 1968. Holmgren spent her entire working career at NYBG, eventually becoming the Director of the Herbarium in 1981, a position she held until her retirement in 2000. As director of The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, Holmgren insisted on the highest possible standards for specimen management and for keeping the herbarium in the forefront on new innovations (such as the creation of an online Index Herbariorum and development of the C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium). Holmgren was also instrumental in conception, fundraising, and design of a new, state-of-the-art building to house the herbarium, the International Plant Science Center, which officially opened for research in 2002. Holmgren continues to work at the garden as Director Emerita of the herbarium.
  In addition to her herbarium leadership, Holmgren played an active role in a number of botanical societies and botanical journals:
  American Society of Plant Taxonomists: Council member (1975–1979), Treasurer (1985–1988), President (1989–1990)
  Association of Systematics Collections: Board of Directors (1988–1994), Secretary (1992–1994)
  Botanical Society of America: Council member (1975–1984), Secretary (1975–1979), Vice President (1980), President (1981)
  Brittonia: Associate Editor (1975–1991), Managing Editor (1984–1991)
  Index Herbariorum: Editor (1974–2008)
  International Association for Plant Taxonomy: Board of Directors (1993–2005)
  Taxon: Editor of News and Notes (1983–1988), Editor of Herbaria and Institutions (1992–2002)
  Patricia Holmgren and Noel Holmgren were instrumental to the completion of Intermountain Flora: Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A., a nine-volume flora on the vascular plants of the western United States between the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada ranges. In addition to collecting many herbarium specimens that would provide the baseline data for descriptions and geographic distributions; Patricia was involved in editing, proofreading, and writing family treatments for the flora.
caption: Patricia Holmgren (front) with fellow New York Botanical Garden herbarium staff (behind, L to R): Lois Brako, Barbara Thiers, Bill Buck, & Jim Grimes.
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