The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) is a botanical organization formed in 1935 to "foster, encourage, and promote education and research in the field of plant taxonomy, to include those areas and fields of study that contribute to and bear upon taxonomy and herbaria", according to its bylaws. It is incorporated in the state of Wyoming, and its office is at the University of Wyoming, Department of Botany. The ASPT publishes a quarterly botanical journal, Systematic Botany, and the irregular series Systematic Botany Monographs. The society gives annual awards for excellence in Botany. The Society gives the Asa Gray Award for "outstanding accomplishments pertinent to the goals of the Society," and the Peter Raven Award to a botanist who has "made exceptional efforts at outreach to non-scientists."
Asa Gray Awardees Source:
2025: Charlotte M. Taylor 2024: Richard G. Olmstead 2023: Mark W. Chase 2022: Thomas B. Croat 2021: Elizabeth Kellogg 2020: Jeff Doyle 2019: Lucinda McDade 2018: Vicki Funk 2017: Michael Donoghue 2016: Peter F. Stevens 2015: Warren Lambert Wagner 2014: Alan Smith 2013: Bruce Baldwin 2012: Noel and Patricia Holmgren 2011: Walter S. Judd 2010: Harold E. Robinson 2009: Alan Graham 2008: William R. Anderson 2007: Scott A. Mori 2006: Douglas E. Soltis and Pamela S. Soltis 2005: Grady Webster 2004: John Beaman 2003: Beryl B. Simpson 2002: Natalie Uhl 2001: Robert F. Thorne 2000: William T. Stearn 1999: Tod Stuessey 1998: Ghillean Prance 1997: Daniel J. Crawford 1996: Peter Raven 1995: Jerzy Rzedowski 1994: Hugh H. Iltis 1993: Sherwin Carlquist 1992: Albert Charles Smith 1991: Billie L. Turner 1990: Warren H. Wagner 1989: Rupert C. Barneby 1988: Charles B. Heiser 1987: Reed C. Rollins 1986: Lincoln Constance 1985: Arthur Cronquist 1984: Rogers McVaugh
Peter Raven Awardees Source:
2025: W. John Kress 2024: John Kartesz 2023: Naomia Fraga 2022: Peter Bernhardt 2021: Tanisha Williams 2020: Susan Pell 2019: Lena Struwe 2018: Chris Martine 2017: Hans Walter Lack 2016: Lynn G. Clark 2015: John Weirsema 2014: Ken Cameron 2013: No award 2012: No award 2011: Robbin C. Moran 2010: Barney Lipscomb 2009: Sandra Knapp 2008: W. Hardy Eshbaugh 2007: John T. Mickel 2006: Art Kruckeberg 2005: Alan W. Meerow 2004: David J. Mabberley 2003: Frederick W. Case 2002: Charles Heiser 2001: Richard C. Harris 2000: Peter Raven
References
https://employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe/biol308/Lecture/introduction.htm ASPT home page Systematic Botany Systematic Botany Monographs