U.S. botanist and a founding professor of the University of Wyoming (1859–1952)
Aven Nelson
Nelson circa 1909
Born
24 March 1859
Lee County, Iowa
Died
31 March 1952(1952-03-31) (aged 93)
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Alma mater
University of Denver
Known for
President, University of Wyoming
Spouse(s)
Celia Alice Calhoun (1860-1929) Ruth E. Ashton (1896-1987)
Scientific career
Fields
Botany
Institutions
University of Wyoming
Author abbrev. (botany)
A.Nelson, A.Nels.
Aven Nelson (March 24, 1859 – March 31, 1952) was an American botanist who specialized in plants of the Rocky Mountains. He was one of the founding professors of the University of Wyoming, where he taught for 55 years as professor and served as president (1918-1922). He served as president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and Botanical Society of America.[1][2]
^"Aven Nelson, Biographical and Professional Information". American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming. Archived from the original on 2016-01-27. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
^"Aven Nelson, Founding Member of UW, Botanist". storify.com. Archived from the original on 2016-01-27. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
AvenNelson (March 24, 1859 – March 31, 1952) was an American botanist who specialized in plants of the Rocky Mountains. He was one of the founding professors...
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1899 to 1903, learning botany under AvenNelson. He spent his summers collecting with Nelson and associate Elias Nelson in Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Colorado...
county distribution map Calflora taxon report, Erythronium multiscapideum Nelson, Aven & Kennedy, Patrick Beveridge. 1908. Muhlenbergia; a journal of botany...
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Encelia virginensis Flora of North America, Encelia virginensis A. NelsonNelson, Aven 1904. Botanical Gazette 37(4): 272–273 Biota of North America Program...
recreational vehicle use. The Plant List, Enceliopsis argophylla (D.C.Eaton) A. Nelson Still, Shannon; Jensen, Nick (20 February 2013). "My Chicago Botanical Garden...
state-level distribution map Flora of North America, Erigeron denalii A. Nelson, Denali fleabane Nelson, Aven 1945. American Journal of Botany 32(5): 289 v t e...
Idaho Nelson, Aven. 1909. Botanical Gazette 47(6): 432–434 in English Tropicos, Enceliopsis A. Nelson Flora of North America, Enceliopsis A. Nelson, Bot...
(1934) AvenNelson (1935) C. Stuart Gager (1936) Edmund Ware Sinnott (1937) Arthur Johnson Eames (1938) Karl McKay Wiegand (1939) Edgar Nelson Transeau...
(1934) AvenNelson (1935) C. Stuart Gager (1936) Edmund Ware Sinnott (1937) Arthur Johnson Eames (1938) Karl McKay Wiegand (1939) Edgar Nelson Transeau...
American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014. Nelson, Aven; Macbride, James Francis (1913). "Western Plant Studies. II". Botanical...
threatened by off-road vehicle use and by hybridization with other Penstemon. AvenNelson first described the plant in 1927 as a subspecies of Penstemon pseudospectabilis...
purpurea in Curtis's Botanical Magazine. In 1918, it was redescribed by AvenNelson and James Francis Macbride, who put it in the genus Clarkia, as Clarkia...
Black-head fleabane Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map Nelson, Aven 1899. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 26(5): 246-247 v t e...
Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. Nelson, Aven & Macbride, James Francis 1913. Botanical Gazette 56(6): 478–479 v t...
had already been correctly described and named as a variety in 1899 by AvenNelson as Tetraneuris acaulis var. caespitosa. This variety is distinguished...
Archived 2011-10-26 at the Wayback Machine Center for Plant Conservation. Nelson, Aven; Macbride, James Francis (1916). "Western Plant Studies. IV". Botanical...
Mertensia oblongifolia by POWO. This variety was first described by AvenNelson in 1902 as a species named Mertensia coriacea. It was reclassified as...
botanist Frederick Vernon Coville (1867–1937), by American botanist AvenNelson as Helianthella covillei. Enceliopsis covillei is a perennial herb with...
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