[2] In collaboration with Otto Karl Berg (1815-1866), professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University,[1] Schmidt was published in Darstellung und Beschreibung in den Pharmacopoea Sämtliche Borussica offizinellen Gewächse aufgeführten (1853).

Benjamin Daydon Jackson describes this work, a survey of plants used in the Prussian pharmacopoeia, as "A thoroughly good book, probably the very best of its class; both in text and illustrations".

[5][6] Medizinal Pflanzen was published in 1887 in Gera, an east-central German city south of Leipzig.

The set of four volumes was a noteworthy achievement and included plants of medicinal interest from several European nations.

It was described by Sitwell and Blunt[7] as "From the botanical standpoint the finest and most useful series of illustrations of medicinal plants.

The remarkable feature of the publication is its nearly 300 finely detailed illustrations, expertly drawn by the artists L. Müeller and C.F.

Schmidt would likely have been an acquaintance, perhaps even a close childhood friend, of Otto Karl Berg, who was also born in Stettin.