> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 85](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212127) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10288-1) LSID 10288-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3700186) QID Q3700186 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Suksdorf, Wilhelm Nikolaus (1850-1932), German (Holstein) born American botanist and plant collector; to the U.S.A. 1858; in Iowa 1858-1874; at the University of California 1874-1876; from 1876-1932 at Bingen (White Salmon), Klickitat Co., Washington; worked with Asa Gray at Harvard 1886-1888; sold exsiccatae and seeds. **Abbreviated name**: *Suksd.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Suksd.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection WS|WS]] (30.000; see W.A. Weber, 1944); duplicates in many herbaria, e.g. [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection B|B]] (extant), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CAS|CAS]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection CORD|CORD]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection NA|NA]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection ORE|ORE]], [[Collection OSC|OSC]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection US|US]] (2000), [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]], [[Collection WSP|WSP]], [[Collection WTU|WTU]]. – Suksdorf distributed his plants in sets, called *Plants from Washington Territory*; *Flora of Washington, Columbia River and Mount Paddo*; *Plants of the Cascade Mountains*. – *Manuscripts and correspondence* in Washington State University Library; further *field notes* at [[Collection US|US]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 346 (b. 15 Sep 1850, d. 3 Oct 1932); BL 1: 220, 320; Bossert p. 388; CSP 18: 1035; Ewan ed. 1: 318, ed. 2: 215; Hortus 3: 1205; IH 1 (ed. 2): 36, (ed. 6): 365, (ed. 7): 343; Lenley p. 398 (also 360); NW p. 15-21, 58, 59; PH 164, 209; Rehder 1: 326, 327; Tucker 1: 673, 3: 298; Urban-Berl. p. 402; Zander ed. 10, p. 722, ed. 11, p. 824. #### Biofile - Anon., Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966. 4: 299. 1969; Science ser. 2. 76: 457-458. 1932 (obit. not.); Torreya 32(6): 170. 1932 (died, killed by a train); Washington State College Powwow 33(4): 12-14. 1953 (portr.). - Cooke, W.B. & C.G. Shaw, Res. Stud. State Coll. Washington 20(4): 135-145. 1952, 21(1): 3-56. 1953 (on S.'s fungus coll.). - Jones, G.N., Rhodora 34: 189-190. 1932 (on his Unters. Gatt. Amsinckia); Wash. hist. Quart. 24(2): 128-129. 1933 (obit.). - Jones, M.E., Contr. West. Bot. 18: 19. 1935 (obit. not.; "he was always a hopeless splitter"). - Keck, D.D., Madroño 2: 103. 1933. - L., J.E., Spokane Spokesman Review, Sunday 8 Jul 1928, Mag. p. \[4\] ("botanist tells world of western plants"). - Lack, H.W. & C.-O. von Sydow, Willdenowia 14: 441. 1984 (letters to Keck in UPS-UB). - Pickett, F.L., Northwest Science 9(4): 13-16. 1935 (biogr. not., bibl.). - Preece, S.J., Res. Stud. State Coll. Washington 23: 279-282. 1955 (eponymy). - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. bot. 1873-1892, 338 \[index\]. 1944. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 403. 1975 (coll.). - St. John, H., Res. Stud. State Coll. Washington 23(4): 225-278. 1955 (main biography, bibl.). - Thomas, J.H., Contr. Dudley Herb. 5(6): 162. 1961 (coll. C. California); Huntia 3: 19-20, 23. 1969. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 280. 1935, 3: 323. 1937. - Weber, W.A., Res. Stud. State Coll. Washington 12(2):51-121. 1944 (on Suksdorf herb.; itin., localities, types, bibl.) (rev. by L. Constance, Madroño 8: 63-64. 1945). #### Eponymy *Suksdorfia* A. Gray (1880, *nom. cons.*); for specific epithet eponyms see S.J. Preece (1955). #### Note - (1) Published a series *Washingtonische Pflanzen, in* Bot. Monatschr. 16(11): 209-212. Nov 1898, 16(12): 220-222. Dec 1898, 18(2): 26-27. Feb 1900, 18(5-6): 86-88. Jun 1900, 18(7): 97-99-Jul 1900, 18(9): 132-134. Sep 1900, 18(10): 153-156. Oct 1900, 19(6): 91-93. Jun 1901 (in part reprinted with original pagination or no pagination at all, sets at HH, US). A *second* part in this series was published in Allg. bot. Z. 12: 5-7, 26-27, 42, 43. 1903; for parts III and IV see *Werdenda*, below. - (2) *The Flora of Mount Adams*, Mazama 1(1): 68-97. 1896. ### Publications ##### n.13.396. Flora washingtonensis **Title** *Flora washingtonensis* a catalogue of the Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta of the state of Washington by Wilhelm N. Suksdorf... \[White Salmon, Washington, 1892\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Washington.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov-Dec 1892 (p. \[3\]: 29 Oct 1892; TBS 15 Jan 1893; Bot. Centralbl. 15 Feb 1893), p. \[1\]-15. *Copies*: HH, NY, US, USDA. ##### n.13.397. Werdenda **Title** *Werdenda* Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde... Bingen, Washington, U.S.A. 1923-1932, 1 vol. (8 nos.). †. **Abbreviated title**: *Werdenda*. **Notes** *1*(*1*): 15 Nov 1923, p. \[i-iv\], t.p., Vorwort, ann. no. 2. (*2*): 20 Dec 1923, p. \[1\]-14. – *Washingtonische Pflanzen III*. (*3-4*): 22 Nov 1927, p. \[15\]-45. – Introd. para., *Washingtonische Pflanzen IV*, Ueber einige Plectritidien, note on Abrams, Ill. Fl. Pac. States. (*5-8*): 31 Dec 1931, p. \[47\]-113. – *Untersuchungen in der Gattung Amsinckia* (p. 104, line 6, *A. curvata* sp. nov. is corrected by pen to *A. cuneata.* *Errata and index*: Feb 1932, p. \[1-4\]. *Copies*: B, HH, ILL, NY, US. – Review G.N. Jones (1932).