Which plant expert are you most closely connected to?

Question

Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere, and with all the greening-up we're featuring plant experts, like Martha Stewart in the Connection Finder this week.

Featured alongside her are:

• Liberty Hyde Bailey, co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural Science
• Sir Joseph Banks, botanist and naturalist
• Washington Atlee Burpee, founder of Atlee Burpee Seed Co.
• Albert Spear Hitchcock, botanist specializing in grass species
• Sara Plummer Lemmon, botanical illustrator and cataloger
• Pierre Lévêque de Vilmorin, founder of l'Arboretum Vilmorin à Verrières-le-Buisson
• Gregor Mendel, father of botanical genetics
• Martin Möbius, Director of the Botanical Institute at the Uni versity of Frankfurt
• William Herbert Purvis, prolific plant collector
• Carl Linnaeus von Linné, botanist who formalized binomial nomenclature

Which one is most closely connected to you? If you're one of the 25.7 million of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

Special feature: Check out how you're connected to other notables by using the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the category page. Browse related categories like Botanists, Naturalists, and Gardeners.

Let us know how you're related below! If you want to share your connection on social media with cousins and friends, click the "get shareable image" below the results, e.g. Martha Stewart and Sara Plummer Lemmon. Then just upload it along with the URL of your direct connection. (Please refrain from sharing your connection on the featured profiles themselves, though. It clutters conversations on research and collaboration. Thanks!)

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Comments

How about Luther Burbank or Albert Etter?

Answer 1

I am most closely connected to Sir Joseph Banks at 21 degrees.

Answer 2

17 degrees from Sara Lemmon (9th cousins, 7x removed)
19 degrees from Atlee Burpee (7th cousins, 6x removed)
19 degrees from Albert Hitchcock
21 degrees from Carl von Linné
23 degrees from Joseph Banks
24 degrees from Pierre Lévêque de Vilmorin
24 degrees from William Purvis
25 degrees from Liberty Bailey
27 degrees from Martin Möbius
29 degrees from Gregor Mendel
31 degrees from Martha Stewart

Answer 3

16 degrees from Albert Hitchcock.

19 degrees from Sara Lemmon. 16th cousin 4 times removed. MRCA Katherine (Perche) Notherne (abt 1339 - 1406).

20 degrees from Joseph Banks.

20 degrees from Atlee Burpee. 11th cousin twice removed. MRCA Margery (Frank) Sorrell (1553 - 1603).

21 degrees from Carl von Linne.

24 degrees from William Purvis.

24 degrees from Phillippe Andre Leveque de Vilmorin.

26 degrees from Liberty Bailey.

27 degrees from Gregor Mendel.

29 degrees from Martha Stewart.

32 degrees from Martin Mobius.

Answer 4

My closest connection is 22 degrees from Atlas Burpee through my DH's family and 29 degrees through my side of the family.

I was really hoping some of the connections would be closer as I am the horticulturalist and Master Gardener in the family. It really shows how little my paternal and maternal ancestors ventured outside the British Isles, whether recently or in the past 200 years or more.

Answer 5

15 degrees from Atlee Burpee

18 degrees from Albert Hitchcock

18 degrees from Sara Lemmon

18 degrees from William Purvis

18 degrees from Daniel Bly

19 degrees from Joseph Banks

21 degrees from Carl von Linné

22 degrees from Philippe André Lévêque de Vilmorin

24 degrees from Liberty Bailey

28 degrees from Gregor Mendel

30 degrees from Martha Stewart

31 degrees from Martin Möbius

Answer 6

• 17 degrees from Washington Atlee Burpee (1858 - 1915) 19th Cousin 4 times removed
• 19 degrees from Albert Spear Hitchcock (1865 - 1935)
• 19 degrees from Sara Allen (Plummer) Lemmon (1836 - 1923) - 19C 7x removed
• 22 degrees from William Herbert Purvis (1858 - 1950)
• 23 degrees from Joseph Banks Bt KCB (1743 - 1820)
• 24 degrees from Carl Nilsson (Linnaeus) von Linné (1707 - 1778)
• 24 degrees from Pierre Lévêque de Vilmorin (1776 - 1862)
• 25 degrees from Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858 - 1954)
• 27 degrees from Martha (Kostyra) Stewart
• 28 degrees from Martin August Johannes Möbius (1859 - 1946)
• 30 degrees from Johann Mendel (abt. 1822 - 1884)

Answer 7

16 degrees from Sir Joseph Banks, followed by 19 degrees from Sara Lemmon.

Answer 8

W. A. Burpee is my third cousin three times removed. 

I've spent all day yesterday connecting his relatives, so people may need to recheck their connections.

I also found that his son, Burpee Jr, married a woman whose grandmother was the sister of Burpee's mother, making them second cousins.

Of the others, only Sara Lemmon is related, a very distant cousin

Answer 9

30 degrees from Martha Stewart, 25 degrees from Liberty Bailey, 22 degrees from Joseph Banks, 17 degrees from Atlee Burpee, 21 degrees from Albert Hitchcock, 16 degrees from Sara Lemmon, 23 degrees from Philippe André Lévêque de Vilmorin, 30 degrees from Gregor Mendel, 31 degrees from Martin Möbius, 24 degrees from William Purvis, 23 degrees from Carl von Linné

Comments

No cousins, but, as a former vegetable grower, I enjoy the connections.

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Actually, I see Sara Lemmon and you are 24th cousins 1x, as well as W. A. Burpee, who is an 8th cousin 3x removed.

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Thank you, Aaron, I missed those as the connections were through marriages.

Answer 10

I am 17 degrees from Sara Lemmon and 19 degrees from Albert Hitchcock. I love that Sara's husband named a bush after her!

Answer 11

Sarah Plummer Lemmon is my 6th cousin 6 times removed.

Answer 12

I am most closely connected to Albert Hitchcock at 18 degrees of separation.

• 18 degrees from Albert Hitchcock
  • 7 branches (1-4-2-2-3-2-5)
• 19 degrees from Sara Lemmon
  • 4 branches (6-6-4-4)
• 21 degrees from Atlee Burpee
  • 5 branches (3-3-5-1-10)
• 25 degrees from Joseph Banks
  • 6 branches (3-5-6-2-6-4)
• 25 degrees from William Purvis
  • 4 branches (6-11-4-5)
• 25 degrees from Carl von Linné
  • 6 branches (1-4-3-5-4-9)
• 26 degrees from Martha Stewart
  • 6 branches (2-8-8-2-3-4)
• 26 degrees from Liberty Bailey
  • 7 branches (2-2-2-4-7-5-5)
• 28 degrees from Philippe André Lévêque de Vilmorin
  • 8 branches (5-1-2-1-7-4-2-7) 
• 31 degrees from Martin Möbius
  • 5 branches (17-2-3-3-7)
• 32 degrees from Gregor Mendel
  • 5 branches (11-8-1-5-8)

Answer 13

28 degrees from Martha Stewart, 

26 degrees from Liberty Bailey, 

23 degrees from Joseph Banks, 

16 degrees from Atlee Burpee, 23rd cousins 3xs remv'd

21 degrees from Albert Hitchcock, 

19 degrees from Sara Lemmon, 24th cousins 3xs remv'd

24 degrees from Philippe André Lévêque de Vilmorin, 

32 degrees from Gregor Mendel, 

34 degrees from Martin Möbius,

23 degrees from William Purvis, 

24 degrees from Carl von Linné 

22 degrees from Daniel Bly

Answer 14

I'm 7 degrees from Albert Hitchcock. He married my 1st cousin 3xr.

Answer 15

I'm  25 degrees from Martha Stewart, 26 degrees from Liberty Bailey, 22 degrees from Joseph Banks, 18 degrees from Atlee Burpee (21c 3xr), 17 degrees from Albert Hitchcock, 17 degrees from Sara Lemmon (12c 4xr), 24 degrees from Philippe André Lévêque de Vilmorin, 28 degrees from Gregor Mendel, 30 degrees from Martin Möbius, 22 degrees from William Purvis, 23 degrees from Carl von Linné and 18 degrees from Daniel Bly. 

Answer 16

Sarah Plummer Lemmon - 13 degrees - 4th cousin, 4 times removed

Answer 17

15 degrees from Washington Atlee Burpee, Burpee-174, 1 branches (16), 6th cousins twice removed MRCA Edward Colburn, Colburn-703

17 degrees from Sara Plummer Lemmon, Plummer-2805, 2 branches (6-12), 7th cousins three times removed, MRCA Mary (Taylor) Lister, Taylor-807

19 degrees from Albert Spear Hitchcock, 5 branches (1-3-4-4-8)

22 degrees from Sir Joseph Banks, 4 branches (4-4-3-12)

22  degrees from William Herbert Purvis, 3 branches (6-11-6)

23 degrees from Carl Linnaeus von Linné, 6 branches (1-4-3-3-2-11)

23 degrees from Philippe André Lévêque de Vilmorin, 3 branches (4-8-12)

24 degrees from Liberty Hyde Bailey, 5 branches (2-2-2-5-14)

29 degrees from Martin Möbius, 3 branches (14-4-12)

31 degrees from Gregor Mendel, 3 branches (11-9-12)

32 degrees from Martha Stewart, 7 branches (2-6-3-1-4-8-9)

Answer 18

A two-way tie.  17 degrees to Atlee Burpee and Sara Lemmon.  The former is a 7th cousin three times removed, and the latter an 8th cousin twice removed.

I'd be curious to read Sara Plummer Lemmon's Marine Algae of the West, but so far I haven't found it.

Does Martha Stewart really belong with this group?  I may be wrong, but it seems that her real expertise is in marketing and promotion, rather than gardening, cooking, or tiling pools with credit card fragments.

Answer 19

19 degrees from Sarah Plummer Lemmon

23 degrees from Atlee Burpee

24 degrees from Sir Joseph Banks

25 degrees from William Herbert Purvis

26 degrees from Albert Spear Hitchcock

28 degrees from Pierre Leveque de Vilmorin

29 degrees from Carl Linnaeus von Linne

30 degrees from Liberty Bailey

34 degrees from Martha Stewart

36 degrees from Gregor Mendel

38 degrees from Martin Mobius

Answer 20

Looks like I share an ancestor with Atlee Burpee! How cool!