Mary Ann McHard (1825–1912), née Jones, was a pioneering Western Australian woman who contributed to Australian botany by collecting over 2,000 plant specimens for Ferdinand von Mueller and sending them to the newly created National Herbarium of Victoria, established by Mueller in 1853.

[2] Within a year of the family's arrival, her mother died, and her father was left to look after the five young children.

The family lived in Perth, where she married Thomas McHard in 1845, by whom she had four daughters.

With the death of her husband in 1864, McHard, her children, her father and her two unmarried brothers, took up land near Balingup on the Blackwood River.

(1874) (current name Lomandra odora), and Boronia machardiana F.Muell.