Lloyd Herbert Shinners (September 22, 1918 – February 16, 1971) was a Canadian-American botanist and professor who had expertise in the flora of Texas and Wisconsin.
His family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin when he was five, and he went on to graduate valedictorian from Lincoln High School.
He continued his education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a Ph.D. under Norman Carter Fassett in 1943.
[1] Shinners authored 274 articles, and published a comprehensive 514 page Flora of north-central Texas.
[3] Shinners was the namesake of one genus, Shinnersia,[5] and more than 15 species, including: Shinner's library of botanical books and collection of plant specimens formed the initial collections of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas in Fort Worth when it was founded in 1987.