Hugh Daniel Wilson (August 15, 1943 – November 5, 2018) was an American botanist and plant taxonomist.
He was a professor at Texas A&M University and was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
[1] He attended college after serving for four years in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War.
In 1980, he received the Edmund H. Fulling Award for the best oral presentation by an early-career scientist at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany.
[2] By 1983, Wilson was studying the conditions that allow for the survival of Spiranthes parksii (Navasota lady's tresses), which was one of 12 endangered plants in Texas.