# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rebecca-merritt-austin
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:44:52.452Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rebecca-merritt-austin"
name: "Rebecca Merritt Austin"
slug: "rebecca-merritt-austin"
description: "Rebecca Merritt Austin was an American botanist and naturalist who collected and sold native plants in California and Oregon. Lomatium austiniae and Cephalanthera austiniae are named in her honor. She studied the chemistry, natural history of, and insects captured by the carnivorous pitcher plant Darlingtonia californica, and sold collected specimens to botanists and collectors. Her specimens are included in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the California Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "American botanist and plant collector (1832–1919)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rebecca_Merritt_Smith_Leonard_Austin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1832-03-10"
deathDate: "1919-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           5.935313333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump