Thomas Walter | |
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Born | c. 1740 |
Died | January 17, 1789 |
Nationality | American British |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Thomas Walter (c. 1740 – January 17, 1789) was a British-born American botanist best known for his book Flora Caroliniana (1788), the first flora set in North America to utilize the Linnaean system of classification.[1]