Barbara Donahue Webster is an American

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and Professor Emerita at the

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. She is a past president of the

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, of which she also served as first female treasurer, and a

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of both the

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and the

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. She has served as editor of the journal '' Madroño''. In 2008 she was awarded the Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America, the society's highest honor.
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