Carl Friedrich Schmidt

Carl Friedrich (C.F.) Schmidt was a German botanical artist. He was a specialist in spermatophytes and was a renowned botanical artist and lithographer who illustrated many of the Germanic botanical works of the 19th century. He is not to be confused with Carl Friedrich Schmidt, born 1832, the Baltic German geologist and botanist. The standard author abbreviation C.F.Schmidt is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.