Samuel Liljeblad

Samuel Liljeblad (20 December 1761, Mösjöholt, Södra Vi, Kalmar län – 1 April 1815, Uppsala) was a Swedish botanist and economist.

He became an avid plant collector encouraged by, among others, a physician in Linköping, Johan Otto Hagström (1716–1792), who was one of the Apostles of Linnaeus.

)[2] In May 1778 he embarked with Carl Birger Rutström and Barthold Rudolf Ekholm on a botanical expedition which lasted a little more than three months.

By carriage and boat they travelled along the Tornio River to Jukkasjärvi and then out on Torneträsk (the sixth largest lake in Sweden).

The 1792 book became important as a textbook widely used by both professionals and amateurs for a few decades, perhaps because it made plant studies more accessible for people ignorant of Latin.