JTH
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American botanist
A.K.A.
J.T.Howell
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
6 November 1903(Merced)
Death:
7 May 1994
The details
Biography
Introduction
John Thomas Howell (November 6, 1903 – May 7, 1994) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He became an expert of Eriogonum (buckwheat) species, which are widely represented in the native California flora.
He was the assistant of Alice Eastwood (1859−1953), the renowned botanist and botanical collection director at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California.
Taxa named for Howell
The genera Howellanthus (Scott Mountain phacelia) of the Boraginaceae and Johanneshowellia (Howell's buckwheat) of the Polygonaceae family are named in his honor.