Eugène Bourgeau

As a young man, he worked at the botanical garden in Lyon, where his influences included Nicolas Charles Seringe and Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan.

[1] In 1843 he relocated to Paris, where he was hired by Philip Barker Webb as a herbarium assistant.

[2] Mt Bourgeau near Sunshine Village in Banff National Park bears his name.

They superficially resemble exsiccatae and are now located in major herbaria with titles like Env.

[8] In honor of him, several taxonomic patronyms were also given in plants: This article about a French botanist is a stub.