Margot Williams (botanist)

Margot Williams is an American botanist who described Hippeastrum iguazuanum in 1984.T.R.Dudley & M.Williams, Taxon 33: 271 (1984)

Career Williams has a master's degree in horticulture and botany, and worked as a horticulturalist and research botanist at the U.S. National Arboretum,Laurelin Kruse. Flowers brighten institution. Valley Courier, Thursday, Jun 26th, 2008 (image) where among other activities she worked on Iris breeding.

Publications Williams, Margot 1982. Chromosome Counts for Six Amaryllis Taxa. Plant Life 38: 34–39. [Corrigenda 39: 41(1983)] Williams, Margot 1982. A Tetraploid Amaryllis starkii. Plant Life 38: 59-61 W. L. Ackerman and Margot Williams. New Cold Hardy Camellia Hybrid Selections. American Camellia Yearbook 1981

References

Sources Harvard Botanist Index: Margot Williams The Americanization of Japanese iris: at the National Arboretum, breeders strive for longer-lasting blooms in a rainbow of colors. Horticulture, v61, 1983 Feb, p22(4) ()