About Elmer Ottis Wooton
Lived 1865 – 1945 (aged 80). Elmer Ottis Wooton was an American university teacher, explorer, botanist, botanical collector and scientific collector.
Elmer Ottis Wooton (19 September 1865 – 1945), was an American botanist, professor of chemistry and botany at New Mexico State College from 1890 to 1911, assistant curator at the National Herbarium in 1910, and employed by the US Department of Agriculture from 1911 to 1935. The species Astragalus wootonii and Cheilanthes wootonii were named after him.
He edited and distributed an exsiccata with specimens collected by him under the title New Mexico plants.
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Who was Elmer Ottis Wooton?
U.S. botanist (1865-1945)
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Elmer Ottis Wooton was born on 19 September 1865 in Kokomo.
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Elmer Ottis Wooton died on 20 November 1945 in Arlington County.
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Elmer Ottis Wooton was a university teacher, explorer, botanist, botanical collector and scientific collector.
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Elmer Ottis Wooton was American.
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