My info
- Full name
- Maggie Whitson
- Username
- Maggie Whitson
- I am
- a professional scientist
- Curator level
- Full Curator
Activity
- 4383 objects curated
- 1288 taxa curated
- 564 images set as exemplar
- 97 articles selected for Overview
- 716 preferred classifications selected
- 1077 common names added
- 25 common names removed
- 9 common names curated
- 189 taxa commented
- 358 comments submitted
- 42 articles added
- 0 data records added
- *counts are refreshed daily
Curator qualifications
- Credentials
I am a faculty member in the biology department at Northern Kentucky University, and I direct/curate their herbarium. (see http://artscience.nku.edu/departments/biology/resources/herbarium.html ) I published a paper on the molecular phylogeny of Physalis (Whitson, M. and P. S. Manos. 2005. Untangling Physalis (Solanaceae) from the physaloids: a two-gene phylogeny of the Physalinae. Systematic Botany 30(1): 216-230.) I am a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
- Curation scope
- I am a professional botanist trained in plant systematics and taxonomy. My specialty is the genus Physalis and its relatives (in the Solanaceae or tomato family). I also know a good bit about flora of the southeastern U.S., particularly the woody plants.
