Stephen Elliott | |
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Born | |
Died | March 28, 1830 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. | (aged 52)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Stephen Elliott (November 11, 1771 – March 28, 1830) was an American legislator, banker, educator, and botanist who is today remembered for having written one of the most important works in American botany, A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia.[1] The plant genus Elliottia is named after him.[2]