Peter Goldblatt (born 1943) is a South African botanist, working principally in the United States.
He held a position as lecturer in botany at Witwatersrand (1967) and then Cape Town (1968–1971) before emigrating to the United States in 1972.
[1][2][3] Peter Goldblatt started his career as a plant collector in 1962, and worked extensively in Cape Province, but also in other regions of Africa, Madagascar, the United States, Greece, Italy, Israel, Turkey and Iran, having collected thousands of specimens.
[1][2][3] A member of several botanical societies, he was also General Secretary (1982–1985) of the Association for the Taxonomic Study of Tropical African Flora.
[5][6] In 1999 he was awarded the International Bulb Society's Herbert Medal for his contributions to the knowledge of bulbous plants.