Cyrus Pringle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cyrus Pringle

U.S. botanist, writer, tax resister and quaker

Date of Birth: 06-May-1838

Place of Birth: Charlotte, Vermont, United States

Date of Death: 25-May-1911

Profession: writer, botanist, mycologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Cyrus Guernsey Pringle (May 6, 1838 – May 25, 1911) was an American botanist who spent a career of 35 years cataloguing the plants of North America.
He is in the top five historical botanists for quantity of new species discovered — approximately 1,200 species, 100 varieties, twenty-nine genera, and four combinations. The standard author abbreviation Pringle is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.