Ida Kaplan Langman

Early life Ida Kaplan was born in 1904 in the Russian Empire. Her family moved to Philadelphia when she was six months old. She was the daughter of Hyman Kaplan and Dora Shedlowsky, and had three younger siblings: Cecily, Frank, and Mae. In 1916, Ida entered the South Philadelphia High School for Girls (SPHS), and she graduated in 1920. After graduation she attended the Philadelphia Normal School and then became a science teacher in the Philadelphia public schools.

Career While working as a teacher, she attended the University of Pennsylvania to study education and botany. After receiving a master's degree in botany in 1945, she became a research fellow for several years. Grants from the National Science Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the U.S. Office of Education helped finance her trips.

In 1964 she published A Selected Guide to the Literature on Mexican Flowering Plants, a thousand-page compendium of more than twenty thousand entries. and Spanish and worked as a bibliographer at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation of Carnegie Mellon University. Leucophyllum langmaniae Flyr; Lopezia langmanae Miranda.