Florence Hedges (August 24, 1878 – December 17, 1956[1]) was a pioneering American plant pathologist and botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry.

Much of her work involved investigations into bacteria-induced plant disease.

Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katharine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith, and Angie Beckwith were among the people she worked with while a researcher at the USDA.

[3] With Erwin Frink Smith, she also translated the 1896 biography of Louis Pasteur by Émile Duclaux.

[4] She died in San Francisco, California.