American botanist and horticulturalist. Charles Crandall was born in Waverly, New York, and between 1885 and 1889 worked as a foreman in the gardens of Michigan Agricultural College. Later he became a professor of botany and horticulture at Colorado Agricultural College in Fort Collins (1890-1900) and while based there collected and published "Colorado weeds" (1893). Crandall also collected fungi in Colorado, producing an exsiccatae entitled Colorado Fung which contained some 200 species. In 1894 he also produced a paper entitled "The Russian thistle". Moving to the University of Illinois in 1902 he was based in the horticulture department and served as Assistant Chief of Pomology in 1906. By 1916 he was Professor of Pomology and Chief in Plant Breeding at the Agricultural Experiment Station. In 1899 Benjamin Lincoln Robinson named Arabis crandallii in his honour, a species now classified as Boechera crandallii (B.L.Rob.) W.A.Weber.

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F.A. Stafleu and R.S. Cowan, 1976-1998, Taxonomic Literature, 2nd edition (TL-2), 4: 447-448.