It is published quarterly by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

[2] Systematic Botany was established in spring 1976 under founding editor-in-chief William Louis Culberson (Duke University).

[3] The current editor-in-chief is James F. Smith (Boise State University).

[1] The American Society of Plant Taxonomists also publishes the peer-reviewed taxonomic monograph series, Systematic Botany Monographs since 1980.

[4] Systematic Botany is abstracted and indexed in Agricola, Agris, BioOne, PubMed, Scirus, and Science Citation Index Expanded.