Almut Gitter Jones (8 September 1923 – 12 October 2013) was a German-American botanist, mycologist, and plant taxonomist known for her work researching the genus Aster, as well as for her work as curator of the herbarium at the University of Illinois.

[1] Jones was born Almut Gitter in Oldenburg to Alfred and Emma (née Eickhorst) Gitter.

She married fellow botanist George Neville Jones in Urbana, Illinois in 1958.

[1] She described over fifty species,[2][3] and the genus Almutaster of the family Asteraceae was named for her in 1982.

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