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Noel Herman Holmgren (Salt Lake City, 1937) is a botanist and explorer from the United States, and a professor of botany at Utah State Agricultural College. He has conducted extensive botanical expeditions to Mexico, Ecuador, Suriname, Venezuela, and Argentina (Tierra del Fuego Province, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands).[1]

Noel Herman Holmgren
In 1971
Born1937 (age 88–89)
EducationColumbia University
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsNew York Botanical Garden
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He was a senior curator at the New York Botanical Garden.[2]

Biography

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Born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1937.[2] His father, Arthur Herman Holmgren (1912–1992), was also a botanist. Noel Holmgren received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1968, and joined the New York Botanical Garden as a research associate. He was appointed associate curator in 1969, curator in 1974, and senior curator in 1984.[2] He also taught at Lehman College, City University of New York, and was the regular editor of the journal Brittonia for 14 years (1977–1990).[2] He specialised in the taxonomy of the family Scrophulariaceae and the floristics of western North America. Since 1969, he has directed his research toward the Intermountain Flora project, to which he has made significant contributions. He was the lead editor of the major illustrated work, Manual of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, published in 1997.[3] Member of numerous scientific, biological, and botanical societies and clubs.[4][2][1]

Selected publications

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  • arthur hermann Holmgren, noel h. Holmgren. 1988. Euphorbia aaron-rossii (Euphorbiaceae), a new species from Marble and Grand Canyons of the Colorado River, Arizona. Ed. New York Botanical Garden. 6 pp.

Books

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  • 2005. Intermountain flora: Subclass Dilliniidae. Volumen 2. Ed. New York Botanical Garden. 488 pp. ISBN 978-0-89327-469-6
  • patricia kern Holmgren, N.H.Holmgren, Lisa C. Barnett. 1990. Index Herbariorum: The herbaria of the world. Volumen 120 de Regnum vegetabile. Ed. International Association for Plant Taxonomy by New York Botanical Gardens. 693 pp. ISBN 978-0-89327-358-3
  • noel hermann Holmgren, ulf Molau. 1984. Flora of Ecuador: 177. Scrophulariaceae. Opera Botanica Series B.Ed. House of the Swedish Research Councils. 189 pp. ISBN 978-91-86344-21-4
  • arthur Cronquist, arthur h. Holmgren, noel h. Holmgren, james l. Reveal. 1972. Intermountain flora: vascular plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A.: Geological and botanical history of the region, its plant geography and a glossary. The vascular cryptograms and the gymnosperms. Ed. Hafner Pub. Co. 270 pp.
The standard author abbreviation N.H.Holmgren is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

Eponymy

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Species

Awards

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  • 2012 N.H. Holmgren, together with his wife Patricia Kern Holmgren was awarded the Asa Gray Award for his lifelong accomplishments in the field of Plant Taxonomy.[12] [2]
  • 2007 Myrtle Hebert Award from the American Penstemon Society.[2]
  • 1998 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, Inc., for 1998’s best book in the biological sciences, Illustrated Companion to Gleason & Cronquist’s Manual: Illustrations of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada[3]
  • 1994 Edgar T. Wherry Award by the North American Rock Garden Society, for outstanding contributions to the dissemination of knowledge about native American plants[13]
  • 1988 The New York Botanical Garden's Distinguished Service Award[14]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Holmgren, Noel Herman (1937-)". Global Plants. JSTOR.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Bio of Pat & Noel Holmgren on NY Bot. Garden Site". New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 31 March 2026.
  3. 1 2 Holmgren, Noel H.; Holmgren, Patricia K. (1998). Illustrated companion to Gleason and Cronquist's manual: illustrations of the vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada by Holmgren, Noel H. New York Botanical Garden. ISBN 978-0-89327-399-6. Retrieved 31 March 2026.
  4. ↑ Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 280; Holmgren, P., Holmgren, N.H. & Barnett, L.C., Index Herb., ed. 8 (1990): 407; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 42; Knobloch, I.W., Pl. Coll. N. Mexico (1979): 28; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 752; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 922;
  5. ↑ International Plant Names Index. N.H.Holmgren.
  6. ↑ Barneby, Rupert C. (1980). "Dragma Hippomanicum V: Two New Astragali from Intermountain United States". Brittonia. 32 (1): 24–29. Bibcode:1980Britt..32...24B. doi:10.2307/2806212. JSTOR 2806212. S2CID 84118361.
  7. ↑ Reznicek, A. A.; Murray, D. F. (2013). "A Re-Evaluation of Carex specuicola and the Carex parryana Complex (Cyperaceae)". Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. 7 (1): 37–51.
  8. ↑ Anderson, Christiane E. (2013). "Six new species of Hiraea (Malpighiaceae) from South America". Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 108: 211–212.
  9. ↑ Society., California Botanical; Society., California Botanical (2010). "Madroño;". Madroño: A West-American Journal of Botany. v.57:no.4 (2010:Oct.-Dec.). California Botanical Society. ISSN 0024-9637.
  10. ↑ Chuang, T. I.; Heckard, L. R. (1992). "A Taxonomic Revision of Orthocarpus (Scrophulariaceae-Tribe Pediculareae)". Systematic Botany. 17 (4): 560–582. Bibcode:1992SysBo..17..560C. doi:10.2307/2419727. JSTOR 2419727.
  11. ↑ Cronquist, Arthur (1981). "A New Species of Scutellaria (Lamiaceae) from California". Brittonia. 33 (3): 449–450. Bibcode:1981Britt..33..449C. doi:10.2307/2806435. JSTOR 2806435. S2CID 84928102.
  12. ↑ "Asa Gray Award". American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
  13. ↑ "NARGS Awards | North American Rock Garden Society".
  14. ↑ "The Patricia and Noel Holmgren Collection (RG4)".
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