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Pteridologists study ferns. Included here are only those who devote a significant portion of their research, publication or plant collecting to ferns, not those generalists who have an occasional paper on ferns |
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1900 - 1949 
William Anderson William A. Anderson was an American botanist and expert on Appalachian ferns, and was curator at the herbarium of the University of Iowa. |
1848 - 1932 
Hampus Arnell Hampus Wilhelm Arnell was a Swedish bryologist, pteridologist, and schoolteacher who was a Privat-Docent at University of Uppsala. |
1896 - 1976 
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Francis Ballard Francis Ballard was British pteridologist and plant collector, and on the staff of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. |
1924 - 1997 
David W. Bierhorst David Bierhorst was an American plant morphologist, anatomist, and plant collector, especially noted for his work on Psilotum and his textbook on plant morphology. |
1865 - 1922
 Henry Bigelow Henry Bigelow |
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1857 - 1925 
Charles Bissell Charles H. Bissell was an American merchant, bank secretary, and amateur botanist especially interested in ferns. He was part of a committee that in 1910 published Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Connecticut Growing without Cultivation. |
1888 - 1964 
Hugo Blomquist Hugo Blomquist was a Swedish-born American pteridologist, bryologist and general plant taxonomist. He was a professor at Duke University and spent a sabbatic year at Cornell University, where he became acquainted with the sphagnum expert, A. Leroy Andrews. |
1911 - 1995 
Edith Bolan Edith M. Bolan was a Maine botanist and, most notably, author of The Ferns of Maine (1948). |
1865 - 1941
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Leonard Boodle Leonard Boodle was a British plant anatomist, morphologist and pteridologist, who was an assistant keeper at the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. |
1855 - 1948 
Frederick Bower Frederick Orpen Bower was a British pteridologist and plant phylogeneticist. He was one of the earliest botanists to promote a phylogenetic approach to classification (e.g., in 1889, ca. 20 years after Haeckel coined the term phylogeny), although this was not Hennigian and did not distinguish monophyly from paraphyly. |
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1858 - 1934 
Elizabeth Britton Elizabeth G. Britton was an American bryologist known for being one of the founding leaders of The New York Botanical Garden. |
1900 - 1993 
Maurice Brooks Maurice Brooks was an American botanist and ornithologist on the faculty of West Virginia University, who published extensively on the flora and fauna of Appalachia. |
1903 - 1982 
Clair Brown Clair A. Brown was a pteridologist, plant collector, and professor of botany at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where he also was director of the herbarium. |
1878 - 1945 
Frederic Butters Frederic King Butters was an American mycologist and botanist on the faculty of University of Minnesota. He was an avid mountaineer as well, and Mt. Butters in British Columbia was named in his honor. |
1859 - 1953 
Douglas Campbell Douglas H. Campbell was an influential American plant morphologist, plant geographer, and educator who wrote several widely-used textbooks, including the 1890 Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany. |
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1876 - 1971
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Grace Charles Grace Miriam Charles was an American pteridologist and botanical collector in the early and mid-20th Century |
1871 - 1963 
Mintin Chrysler Mintin Asbury Chrysler was an American plant anatomist, pteridologist, and paleobotanist. His work encompassed a large variety of plants and fossil plants. |
1869 - 1950 
Willard Clute Williard N. Clute was an American naturalist and pteridologist who founded the American Fern Society in 1893, served as the editor of the society's publications, and was a prolific author of instructional texts and botanical works. |
1862 - 1951
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Cassiano Conzatti Cassiano Conzatti was an Italian pteridologist, schoolteacher, and plant collector who lived in Mexico most of his life, becoming expert in the flora of Oaxaca and eventually becoming director of the Botanic Gardens, Oaxaca. |
1873 - 1964 
Edwin Copeland Edwin B. Copeland was an American plant physiologist, pteridologist, and agriculturist who founded the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture. |
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1906 - 1984 |
1833 - 1907 
George Davenport George Edward Davenport was an American gilder and amateur botanist whose main botanical interest was in ferns. |
1844 - 1918 
Raynal Dodge Raynal Dodge was an American amateur pteridologist and naturalist known as the discoverer of Dryopteris simulata, and author of The Ferns and Fern Allies of New England (1896). |
1834 - 1895 
Daniel Eaton Daniel Cady Eaton, grandson of the educator and botanist Amos Eaton, was an American botanist and educator who specialized in fern taxonomy. |
1895 - 1972 
James Edwards James Leland "Lee" Edwards was an American civil engineer with connections to many of the great biologists of his day, including ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson and botanist R.T. Clausen. Edwards co-authored Ferns of New Jersey with M.A. Chrysler of Rutgers University in 1947. |
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1882 - 1936
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Edward Graves Edward Willis Graves was an American farmer and amateur botanist and pteridologist who mainly collected in the southern United States, but notably took a collecting trip to Cuba in 1919. |
1887 - 1963 
Henry Holden Henry Smith Holden was an English bacteriologist and botanist specializing in forensic botany, and was employed by New Scotland Yard in that capacity. |
1895 - 1990 
Richard Holttum Richard E. Holttum was an English horticulturist and pteridologist who became director of the Singapore Botanical Gardens, and later professor at University of Malaya. |
1920 - 1993 
Donald Huttleston Donald Huttleston was an American plant taxonomist who studied the genus Arisaema while a graduate student at Cornell University and later published on ferns. |
1877 - 1964 
Otto Jennings Otto E. Jennings was an American pteridologist, bryologist, and paleobotanist who was employed by the Carnegie Museum and was on the faculty of University of Pittsburgh. His interests included floras of Pennsylvania and of Cuba, with publications including A Contribution to the Botany of the Isle of Pines (1917) and Wild Flowers of Western Pennsylvania and the Upper Ohio Basin (1953). |
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1932 - 2014 
Anthony Jermy Anthony Clive Jermy was an English pteridologist and caricologist who co-authored Sedges of the British Isles in 2007. |
1867 - 1937 
Duncan Johnson Duncan Starr Johnson was an American professor of botany at Johns Hopkins University for most of his career, and collected extensively in tropical America. |
1907 - 1999 
Irving Knobloch Irving William "Knobby" Knobloch was an American educator, fern specialist, and biologist known for identifying a number of new plant and animal species while managing a copper mine in Mexico in the 1930s. |
1907 - 2004 
Elbert Little |
1877 - 1948 
William Maxon William R. Maxon was an American pteridologist and plant collector employed by the U.S. National Herbarium (Smithsonian Institution), whose specialty was tropical American ferns. |
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1905 - 1972 
Conrad Morton Conrad Vernon Morton was a prolific American plant taxonomist, pteridologist and plant collector. His taxonomic interests were global, although he focused on North, Central and South America. |
1875 - 1962 
Ernest Palmer Ernest J. Palmer was a Missourian who began plant collecting for Benjamin Franklin Bush and later for Charles Sprague Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum. Palmer began sending specimens to Sargent for identification in 1901 and became expert in the genus Crataegus. He eventually moved to Boston and worked at the Arboretum until 1948. |
1887 - 1970 
Loren Petry Loren Clifford Petry was an American plant anatomist and pteridologist who was a professor at Cornell University |
1889 - 1989 
Norma Pfeiffer Norma Etta Pfeiffer was an American pteridologist. Although she worked mostly on ferns, she is remembered best as the botanist who discovered the unusual endemic mycoheterotroph Thismia americana near Chicago in 1914. |
1920 - 2015 
George Proctor George Proctor was an American plant taxonomist and floristician active in the Caribbean, especially Jamaica, where he worked at the Institute of Jamaica. He notoriously was convicted at age 86 of conspiracy to murder his wife and three others, and imprisoned for two years. |
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1852 - 1936
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Mary Reynolds Mary Collins Reynolds was an American botanist and plant collector who mainly worked with ferns. |
1867 - 1962 
Winifred Robinson Winifred Josephine Robinson was an American botanist who studied Hawaiian ferns, and was the first dean of the Women's College of the University of Delaware. |
1846 - 1925
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John Robinson John Robinson was an American pteridologist and horticulturist who lived and worked in New England. |
1922 - 1978
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Robert J. Rodin Robert J. Rodin was an American plant anatomist and ethnobotanist on the faculty of California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, who studied Gnetaceae, ethnobotany of Ovamboland, and taxonomy of California pteridophytes. |
1883 - 1957 
Harold Rugg Harold Goddard Rugg was an American university librarian and pteridologist, for whom the fern Osmunda ruggii was named. |
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1933 - 2015 
Oliver Sacks Oliver Sacks was an American physician, medical researcher and popular author who had an intense avocation in botany, particularly cycads and ferns. He collaborated with botanists at the New York Botanical Garden and accompanied them on field trips, one of which with Robbin Moran is documented in his book Oaxaca Journal. |
1904 - 1991 
William Sledge W. Arthur Sledge was an English pteridologist known for his expertise in the Yorkshire flora as well as the Sri Lankan pteridophyte flora. |
1928 - 2011
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Dale Smith Dale Metz Smith was an American plant taxonomist, pteridologist and chemotaxonomist who studied a variety of taxa including Phlox, Helianthus, and desert ferns. |
1911 - 1990 
Greta Stevenson Greta Stevenson was a New Zealand botanist, microbiologist, mycologist, educator, and botanical illustrator who wrote several books on New Zealand plants and fungi. |
1877 - 1968 
Alma G. Stokey Alma Stokey was a pteridologist and professor at Mt. Holyoke College who collected in India, Java, Ceylon and Formosa on her worldwide trips and while teaching at the University of Madras in India. |
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1872 - 1952
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Alexandrina Taylor Alexandrina Taylor was an American pteridologist and botanical illustrator who worked and published with Elizabeth Britton |
1920 - 2011 
Mary Tindale Mary Douglas Tindale was an Australian pteridologist and the first principle research scientist for the New South Wales (NSW) Public Works. |
1916 - 2001 
Rolla Tryon Rolla Milton Tryon, Jr. was an American pteridologist and taxonomist on the faculty of Harvard University, and spouse of pteridologist Alice Faber Tryon with whom he collaborated. |
1853 - 1907 
Lucien Underwood Lucien Underwood was an American botanist, zoologist, and educator who published extensively on ferns and hepatics, as well as various orders of invertebrates. |
1858 - 1949 
Josef Velenovsky Josef Velenovsky was a Czech pteridologist, bryologist and mycologist. |
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1920 - 2000 
Warren Herbert Jr. Wagner Warren Herbert (Herb) Wagner was an America plant taxonomist, pteridologist and cytotaxonomist. Wagner was one of the most well known pteridologists in the United States, and was even casually mentioned in the 1971 Hollywood movie A New Leaf. Wagner is also credited with developing a graphical means of visualizing phylogeny which was later immortalized as the "Wagner Tree" or "Wagner Network." |
1919 - 2019 
Florence Wagner Florence S. Wagner was an American botanist, cytologist, and pteridologist who, with her spouse Warren H. Wagner, revolutionized the understanding of fern systematics using cytology and chromosome numbers. |
1878 - 1957 
Una Weatherby Una Foster Weatherby was a photographer and illustrator who produced work in support of the research efforts of her spouse, the pteridologist Charles Alfred Weatherby. |
1875 - 1949 
Charles Weatherby Charles Alfred Weatherby was an American botanist and spouse of botanical illustrator and photographer Una Leonora Foster. He served as Curator of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University. |
1947 - 2001 
Charles R. Werth Charles R. Werth was a Korean-born American plant systematist, geneticist, and pteridologist who notably used isozyme analysis to infer the relationships in hybrid species complexes. |
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1885 - 1982 
Edgar T. Wherry Edgar T. Wherry was an American mineralogist, soil scientist, and fern expert from Philadelphia who was the foremost fern taxonomist of his time and wrote three key guides to eastern North American ferns. |
1899 - 1987 
Ira Wiggins Ira L. Wiggins was an American pteridologist and floristician on the faculty of Stanford University, where he served as Curator of the Dudley Herbarium and Director of the Natural History Museum. His 1980 Flora of Baja California remains important for that region. |
1839 - 1884 
John E. Williamson John Williamson was a 19th Century Scottish-American amateur botanist, illustrator and artist, noted for his treatment of the Ferns of Kentucky. |
1913 - 1998
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William Winne William Thomas Winne was an American botanist who received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and was a professor at Union College. |
1880 - 1972
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Elizabeth Wuist Elizabeth Wuist is known for her studies of apogamy in ferns and for her plant collecting in Australasia. |
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1837 - 1909 
Lorenzo Yates Lorenzo Gordin Yates was a British-American dentist, paleontologist, malacologist, horticulturist, and botanist who notably collected plants in California's Channel Islands. |