Delzie Demaree

Herbarium specimen of Passiflora lutea, collected by Delzie Demaree in Arkansas, 1961.

Delzie Demaree (15 September 1889 – 2 July 1987) was an American botanist, and plant collector. His place of death is reported as Bonham, Arkansas

Life Demaree was born in Benham, in south-eastern Indiana. He attended the Central Normal College in Danville before serving as a member of the United States Marine Corps between 1917 and 1919. Delzie completed his PhD at Stanford University in 1932 and continued to teach at various institutions, including Arkansas Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and Tulane University. Coreopsis grandiflora f. demareei Sherff Draba corrugata var. demareei (Wiggins) C.L.Hitchc., and synonym Draba demareei Wiggins. Gaura demareei P.H.Raven & D.P.Greg. Oenothera demareei (P.H.Raven & D.P.Greg.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch Rosa demareei E.J.Palmer, a synonym of Rosa woodsii Lindl. Verbena demareei Moldenke, a synonym of Verbena bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida.

Botanical collections The bulk of Demaree's plant collections (approximately 50,000 specimens) were held by the Southern Methodist University herbarium, out of the over 75,000 collection numbers that he recorded.