# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jane-colden
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:45:32.771Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jane-colden"
name: "Jane Colden"
slug: "jane-colden"
description: "Jane Colden was an American botanist, described as the \"first botanist of her sex in her country\" by Asa Gray in 1843. Although not acknowledged in contemporary botanical publications, she wrote a number of letters resulting in botanist John Ellis writing to Carl Linnaeus of her work applying the Linnaean system of plant identification to American flora, for which botanist Peter Collinson stated \"she deserves to be celebrated\". Contemporary scholarship maintains that she was the first female botanist working in America, which ignores, among others, Maria Sibylla Merian or Catherine Jérémie. Colden was respected as a botanist by many prominent botanists including John Bartram, Peter Collinson, Alexander Garden, and Carl Linnaeus. Colden is most famous for her untitled manuscript, housed in the British Museum, in which she describes the flora of the Hudson Valley in the Newburgh region of New York state, including ink drawings of 340 different species."
tagline: "American botanist (1724-1766)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jane_Colden.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1724-03-27"
deathDate: "1766-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump