Edward Johnston Alexander (July 31, 1901 – August 18, 1985) was an American botanist[1] who discovered three species and one genus.
[4] He was a longtime assistant and curator at New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), originally under the guidance of Small.
[5] While at the NYBG, he served as an editor of the Garden's botanical journal Addisonia for about thirty years, until the journal ceased publication in 1964.
[citation needed] Alexander undertook several botanical expeditions in his lifetime, including to Pecos, Texas with John Kunkel Small and to the southern Appalachians and the Rocky Mountains with Thomas H. Everett.
On that trip, he collected around 1,600 specimens and 1,000 seeds and roots for the herbarium and propagation houses at the New York Botanical Garden.