Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (6 March 1888 – 4 December 1948) was a Soviet botanist of German descent.
He traveled widely over the Caucasus region collecting and studying various different plant life.
Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (or Grossgeim) was born in Likhovka, Russian Empire (now Lykhivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine).
[1] After graduating from University of Moscow with a doctorate in 1912, he became the director of the Azerbaijan Institute of Botany.
When he died in 1948, he was still working on the second edition of his Flora Kavkaza, which was continued by his colleague Andrei Fedorov.