Dr. Donovan Correll, Taxonomist, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida. Author of Ferns and Fern Allies of Texas (1956), senior author of the Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas (1970), author of Alaska Highway Adventure (1981), and other publications. Secured for Texas the Oakes Ames Botanical Library, renamed the Lundell Rare Book Library, housed at the University of Texas at Austin. Recipient of grants totaling more than $600,000. His botanical field explorations from 1935-1978 yielded more than 50,000 specimens for research projects.

Award Recipients

1988	Marshall Enquist, for rediscovery of Salvia penstemonoides, believed to be extinct for 40 years
1989	Jill Nokes, for the book How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest
1990	Benny J. Simpson, for the book A Field Guide to Texas Trees
1991	William F. Mahler, for the book Shinner's Manual of the North Central Texas Flora
1992	A. Michael Powell, for the book Trees & Shrubs of Trans-Pecos Texas
1993	Marshall C. Johnston, for the book The Vascular Plants of Texas update
1994	Stephan L. Hatch, Kancheepuram N. Gandhi, and Larry Brown, for the book Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Texas
1995	Alfred Richardson, for the book Plants of the Rio Grande Delta
1996	Kenneth Gee and Michael Porter of the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and Steve Demarais, Fred C. Bryant, and Gary Van Vreede of Texas Tech University, Department of Range/Wildlife Management, for the book White-Tailed Deer, Their Foods and Management in the Cross Timbers
1997	Bob Lonard, for the book Guide to Grasses of the Lower Rio Grande Valley
1998	A. Michael Powell, for the book Grasses of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas
1999	Joe Cepeda and Pam Allison, for the book Texas Panhandle Plants
2000	George M. Diggs, Jr., Barney L. Lipscomb, and Robert J. O'Kennon, for the book Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas
2001	Scooter Cheatham, Marshall C. Johnston, with Lynn Marshall, for book series The Useful Wild Plants of Texas, the Southeastern and Southwestern United States, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico
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2003	B.L. Turner, Holly Nichols, Geoffrey Denny, and Oded Doron, for the book Atlas of the Vascular Plants of Texas
2004	David J. Schmidly, for the book Texas Natural History: A Century of Change
2005	Sharon C. Yarborough and A. Michael Powell, for the book Ferns and Fern Allies of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas
2006	George M. Diggs, Jr., Barney L. Lipscomb, Monique D. Reed, and Robert J. O'Kennon, for the book Illustrated Flora of East Texas, Volume One
2007	A. Michael Powell and James F. Weedin, for the book Cacti of the Trans-Pecos & Adjacent Areas
2008	Jackie M. Poole, William R. Carr, Dana M. Price, and Jason R. Singhurst, for the book Rare Plants of Texas: A Field Guide