Catalogued the flora of the Lower Hudson Valley, NY

is most famous for her untitled manuscript housed in the Botany Library of the British Museum since the mid-1800s in which she described the flora of the Lower Hudson Valley in the Newburgh region of NYS which included ink drawings of 340 different plants; developed her own technique for making ink impressions of leaves; for many of her drawings she included additional botanical details & culinary, folklore or medicinal uses for the plants including information from indigenous people; 1753 discovered a plant now known as Hypericum virginicum

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Botany

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