Michael Schuck Bebb: America’s Willow Expert and Prairie Botanist

Michael Schuck Bebb (1833-1895), a prominent American systematic botanist known for his extensive research on the genus Salix (willows).

Fountaindale Paradise Today is the anniversary of the death of the Ohio-born botanist and Willow Expert Michael Schuck Bebb, who died on this day in 1895. In 1896, Walter Deane wrote a biography of Bebb’s life in the Botanical Gazette. The biography included a fantastic photo of Bebb, who had sideburns that extended below his…

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