Deborah Lewis Author & Editor

Artist and botanical illustrator Anna Gardner (1958–2006), BS in biological/pre-medical illustration and MS in integrated graduate studies at Iowa State University, created and illustrated the Grasses of Iowa website.

Michael Hurst, BS in horticulture from Iowa State University, works as a horticulturist and landscaper.

Deborah Lewis is the curator of the Ada Hayden Herbarium in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University. She focuses on the New World species of Lindernia, false pimpernel, as well as the flora of Iowa.

Lynn Clark is the director of the Ada Hayden Herbarium in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University. Her research interests focus primarily on the systematics and morphology of grasses, in particular the woody bamboos.