Jonathan Salt (1759–1815) was a cutler and local naturalist who catalogued plants growing in the Sheffield area.
[1][2] He created a herbarium between 1773 and 1809, which provided the specimens for his Flora Sheffieldiensis.
[3] Although being used extensively by Frederick Arnold Lees in his The Flora of West Yorkshire with a sketch of the climatology and lithology in connection therewith (1888), the catalogue only existed in manuscript form until its publication in The Story of South Yorkshire Botany in 2011.
[2] Lees referenced a number of plants first identified by Salt:[4] Some are listed here: