Margot Williams (botanist)

Margot Williams is an American botanist who described Hippeastrum iguazuanum in 1984.^[1]

Career

Williams has a master's degree in horticulture and botany, and worked as a horticultualist and research botanist at the U.S. National Arboretum,^[2] where among other activities she worked on Iris breeding.^[3]

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) ( ISSN 0018-5329)