Aven Nelson

Aven Nelson (1859–1952), U.S. botanist

IPNI standard form: A.Nelson (outdated: Nelson)

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 50 taxon names authored by Aven Nelson

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• First report on the flora of Wyoming (1896)
• The Trees of Wyoming and How to Know Them (1899)
• The Red Desert of Wyoming and its forage resources (1898)

• Nelson, A. 1898. New plants from Wyoming. I–IV. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 25(4). I: 202–206; II: 275–284; III: 373–381; IV: 546–549. BHL Reference page. 

• Nelson, A. 1899. New plants from Wyoming. VI. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 26(3): 122–134.BHL Reference page. 
• The Flora of Montana (1900)
• The Cryptogams of Wyoming. A Preliminary Report upon those Species (1900)
• The Brome-Grasses of Wyoming (1901)
• An Analytical Key to Some of the Common Flowering Plants of the Rocky Mountain Region (1902)

• Nelson, A. 1902. Contributions from the Rocky Mountain Herbarium. IV. Botanical Gazette 34(5): 355–371. BHL Reference page. 

• Nelson, A. 1904. A decade of new plant names. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 17(12): 99–100. BHL Reference page. 

• Nelson, A. 1904. New plants from Wyoming, XV. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 31(5): 239–247. BHL Reference page. 

• Coulter, J.M. & Nelson, A. 1909. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains. (Vascular plants). New York / Cincinnati / Chicago. BHL Reference page. 
• Spring Flora of the Intermountain States (1912)

• Nelson, A. 1913. Contributions from the Rocky Mountain Herbarium. XIII. Botanical Gazette 56(1): 63–71. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Biography from Rocky Mountain Herbarium