Edmund August Friedrich Russow (Russian: Эдму́нд Фридрихович Ру́ссов, romanized: Èdmúnd Fridrichovič Rússov; 24 February [O.S.

30 March] 1897) was a Baltic German biologist.

The son of a military engineer, Edmund Russow studied at the Universities of Dorpat (now Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia) and Berlin.

Russow was at the forefront of nature conservation in Estonia, and associated with the work of Hugo Conwentz (1865-1922), a founder of nature conservation efforts throughout Europe.

Russow was an authority on Sphagnaceae (sphagnum mosses)[1] and remembered for his research in plant anatomy and histology, in particular studies of the plant family Marsileaceae (aquatic and semi-aquatic ferns).