Alma Holland Beers

Alma Holland Beers was an American botanist known for being the first woman botanist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including her work plant collecting, co-authoring multiple publications, and creating botanical illustrations. She worked closely with Dr. Williams Chamber Coker and Nancy Eliason, co-collecting and co-authoring with them. Beers became known as the backbone of the UNC Department of Botany, having been personally recruited by Coker after impressing him with her careful laboratory work in 1917. The standard author abbreviation Beers is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.Alma Holland Beers was born in Moore Country, North Carolina on January 10, 1892.